Re: truss ????

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
19 May 1997 22:46:47 +0200

Felix Schroeter <felix@mamba.pond.sub.org> writes:
>
> strace is the answer.
>
> But the 4.4 BSD equivalent is ktrace, which instructs the kernel itself
> to write out a binary file ktrace.out, which can then be analyzed with
> kdump.
>
BSD's ktrace isn't equivalent. It only logs function parameters and can't
peek into structures. (Tracing a stat() call, for instance, with ktrace
will show the file's name because name lookups are logged, but it won't
show how big the file is.)

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