Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:20:53 -0500 From: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> To: Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strace Message-ID: <20000203122053.A408@argon.blackdawn.com> In-Reply-To: <3899AC87.618448A4@cstone.net>; from highway@cstone.net on Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 11:27:51AM -0500 References: <38999B71.C1A4B35B@cstone.net> <20000203112219.A464@argon.blackdawn.com> <3899AC87.618448A4@cstone.net>
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 11:27:51AM -0500, Sean Michael Whipkey wrote: > Well, according to the web page: > Strace is a system call trace, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a > trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program. The > program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it > on binaries for which you don't have source. > > System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel > interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug > isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions. As other people have mentioned, this utility sounds like what ktrace/kdump do. -- Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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