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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatekeeper.wj.com!bali.seg.wj.com!not-for-mail From: alan@bali.seg.wj.com (Alan Strassberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: strace or truss for FreeBSD Date: 2 Dec 1996 08:45:10 -0800 Organization: Watkins-Johnson Lines: 24 Message-ID: <57v12m$879@bali.seg.wj.com> References: <32A13666.41C67EA6@bis.co.il> <57sg1d$gcv@uriah.heep.sax.de> <57tv56$aue$1@gail.ripco.com> Reply-To: alan@wj.com NNTP-Posting-Host: bali.seg.wj.com In article <57tv56$aue$1@gail.ripco.com>, David Richards <dr@ripco.com> wrote: >In article <57sg1d$gcv@uriah.heep.sax.de>, >J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >>Meir Dukhan <mdukhan@bis.co.il> wrote: >>> I'm looking for strace or truss for FreeBSD. [..] >>It's not exactly the same, but we've got ktrace for this purpose. It > >Truss is one of the few commands that keeps me interested in SYSVR4.x >It really is much more useful in debugging than any of the trace, >gnu debugger, or profiling programs available for the free BSD variants. You might want to check out some of the tools from AT&T (free source). There's some really interesting goodies here similar to the AT&T Toolchest. http://www.research.att.com/~vt/ext-software/reuse/ Specifically "ft" may help you but might require some assembly. alan -- alan@wj.com