Re: a couple proposed patches

[Joe Buehler <jbuehler at hekimian dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> > PATCH 2 -- a patch to make strace output go directly to a memory-mapped
> > file, with very minimal inter-thread interference (one call to
> > InterlockedAdd() is the only "locking").
>
>
> Um, this is close to the way that strace used to work.  No, I'm sorry, but
> I'm not interested in either of these.

As you wish.  I wrote it because it is a lot faster than the current
strace and causes very little inter-thread interference.  It allows me
to track down timing problems that strace operation masks, and to run
3 hour builds that don't take all day because of strace...
--
Joe Buehler