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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
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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
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