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- From: hugh@cs.toronto.edu ("D. Hugh Redelmeier")
- Subject: Re: Where did /usr/bin/truss originate?
- Message-ID: <93Jan11.014713est.47755@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- References: <1993Jan9.200455.28681@sinkhole.unf.edu> <JHPB.93Jan10205357@sarto.budd-lake.nj.us>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 06:47:39 GMT
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- jhpb@sarto.budd-lake.nj.us (Joseph H. Buehler) writes:
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- | Truss *is* wonderful, isn't it?
-
- I like it a lot, and used it for figuring out SVr4 and SVr4.2, even
- when I had access to the source!
-
- | I think it was written at AT&T.
- | ... I tried to
- | get in touch with the author a while back, because of a bug. As I
- | recall, he had left for another company.
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- It was written by Ron Gomes, when he was at USL. I think he gave a
- USENIX talk on it at the time (it might have been about /proc -- I
- forget). He has moved on, so he wouldn't be the one to fix it
- (although I have sent him complaints anyway :-).
-
- Hugh Redelmeier
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