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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:38:52 -0800
From:      Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM>
To:        avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: truss, trace ??
Message-ID:  <199612080338.TAA10302@kithrup.com>

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>Whilst we have ktrace(2) which works with ktrace(1) and kdump(2), there is
>no ptrace(2)

Uh... how do you think gdb talks to processes?  It uses ptrace().

Our ptrace is not sufficient to do syscall stops, though.  I have changes to
procfs and the rest of the kernel that do allow it, however, and I've
written an EP version of truss that uses it.

Sean.



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