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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!nef.ens.fr!steamer!espel From: espel@steamer.ens.fr (Roger Espel Llima) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: strace under FreeBSD Date: 11 Jan 1997 22:11:14 GMT Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5b9362$hrr@nef.ens.fr> References: <5b3d59$9ns@samba.rahul.net> <5b759n$dhp@nova.dimensional.com> <5b8ma4$m5v@nova.dimensional.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: steamer.ens.fr Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33762 In article <5b8ma4$m5v@nova.dimensional.com>, Michael Fuhr <mfuhr@dimensional.com> wrote: >mfuhr@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr) writes: > >>Rainer Busch <busch@rahul.net> writes: > >>>Is anyone aware of a port of the utility "strace" running under SunOS, >>>Linux etc. ? Did not find it in the ports collection ... > >>ktrace As far as I could see, though, strace gives some very useful information like symbolic dumps of structures pointed to by arguments, which ktrace doesn't show... although ktrace can have its uses, it would probably be worth porting strace too (after all, ptrace() is there and usable, that's all strace needs); has anyone done that or started it? Otherwise I might give it a try. -Roger -- e-mail: roger.espel.llima@pobox.com WWW page & PGP key: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html