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- From: walter@mecky.rent-a-guru.de (Walter Mecky)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: Where did /usr/bin/truss originate?
- Message-ID: <1201@mecky.rent-a-guru.de>
- Date: 13 Jan 93 01:11:32 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.200455.28681@sinkhole.unf.edu> <JHPB.93Jan10205357@sarto.budd-lake.nj.us>
- Reply-To: walter@rent-a-guru.de (Walter Mecky)
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- In article <JHPB.93Jan10205357@sarto.budd-lake.nj.us> jhpb@sarto.budd-lake.nj.us (Joseph H. Buehler) writes:
- < In article <1993Jan9.200455.28681@sinkhole.unf.edu> shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:
- <
- < I have Esix 4.0.3a. It came with a nice utility called truss,
- < located in /usr/bin. I thought this was part of the standard
- < USL source release of SVR4. However, our company just got in SVR4
- < from Harris (running on a Night Hawk 4400) and truss is not on the
- < system. Does anyone know the origin of the truss utility (i.e., is
- < it from Sun or made just for the i386/i486 platform of Unices?). Thanks
- < for the info!
- <
- < Truss *is* wonderful, isn't it?
-
- Yes, I think so too. But from the very first days I played with this
- nice tool I'm waiting for the day that now has come: a vendor cares
- about the knowledge truss gives about his code. Truss often shows very
- poor programming and obvious errors.
-
- Is this not a reason for a vendor to "unbundle" it from the
- distribution?
-
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