Re: Why cannot truss peek inside sendmsg()

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 04/30/05 

Date: 30 Apr 2005 08:42:22 GMT

Jonathan Adams <jwadams@gmail.com> writes:

>In article <1114659765.003725.136730@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
> sonyantony@hotmail.com wrote:

>> Jonathan Adams wrote:
>> >
>> > Not really; the code to do it was just never written. I've filed
>> >
>> > 6262586 truss should print data written/read for sendmsg/recvmsg
>> >
>> > to cover this.
>>
>> dtrace sounds promising. Is dtrace available on solaris 8 ?

>Nope; and it will never be available for Solaris 8 -- it relies on type
>infrastructure that was introduced in Solaris 9. (it's not likely to be
>backported to S9, either)

Isn't it the case that it can't be made on sun4m CPUs either?
(Or only with great difficulty?)

Casper 

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