Re: Proposal: Remove filemon(4); switch make meta to ktrace

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 06:09:20AM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> > - What instead?  The attached patch (patch set make-meta-v2.patch;
> >   combined diff make-meta-v2.diff) replaces make's use of
> >   /dev/filemon by ktrace, in meta mode.
> 
> How does this interact with someone ktracing a make run?  If it that
> breaks make, I think this is a very bad idea; if it breaks the user's
> ktrace, I think it is a moderately bad idea.  (I haven't had to ktrace
> make very often, but when I have there hasn't been much else that would
> be suitable.)

Don't use meta mode in that case. It is not the default.

Joerg