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From: espel@solar.sky.net (Roger Espel Llima)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: strace or similar for FreeBSD
Date: 17 Jul 1997 17:37:50 -0500
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In article <5q1rfr$oph$1@scanner.worldgate.com>,
Marc Slemko  <marcs@znep.com> wrote:
>ktrace.  Works great wonders.
>
>Not as nice as something like Solaris's truss, but...

or like Linux's and SunOS's strace... too bad FBSD doesn't have
a PTRACE_SYSCALL option to ptrace(), it doesn't sound too hard
to add for kernel hackers, and would make it easy to port strace.

any plans to add it?

	Roger
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