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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: strace or trace for FreeBSD ?
Date: 29 Jun 1995 12:00:45 +0200
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Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:
>
>I was tryning to find an strace like utility for FreeBSD to help me
>port some Linux code over to BSD.  I can't seem to be able to find
>it.  I tried downloading the source but couldn't compile it under BSD.

Since you happen to have the source code, you should really consider
compiling with -g and using gdb.
(No, not `strace', but the other application you're going to port. :)
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)