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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] acidself
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:54:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <da8ce844cf1ada7a22b076ea326673d5@quanstro.net> (raw)

i hope this is worth a few tens of microseconds of
amusement.

the problem is this.  how to get a backtrace when
you may be killed by your parent who is cleaning
up after himself before somone wielding a debugger
has a chance to react?  the amusing answer is just run
acid yourself.  how?  well just catch the note.

sleazy, no? think of it as one more reason to enjoy plan 9.

- erik

----
; cat /rc/bin/stk
#!/bin/rc
for(i)
	echo 'stk()' | acid $i
----
#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>

void
system(char *cmd, char **av)
{
	int in, pid;

	switch(pid=fork()){
	case -1:
		return;
	case 0:
		in = open("/dev/null", OREAD);
		close(0);
		dup(in, 0);
		exec(cmd, av);
		_exits(0);
	default:
		while(waitpid() < 0)
			postnote(PNPROC, pid, "die");
		break;
	}
}

void
acid(void)
{
	char *av[3], buf[16];

	snprint(buf, sizeof buf, "%d", getpid());
	av[0] = "stk";
	av[1] = buf;
	av[2] = 0;
	system("/bin/stk", av);
}

int
an(void*, char*)
{
	acid();
	return 0;
}

void
main(void)
{
	atnotify(an, 1);
	abort();
	exits("");
}



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