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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:11:25 +0900
From: Greg Lehey <grog@papillon.lemis.com>
To: Gerald Ehritz <ehritz@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Tracing systemcalls
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On Friday, 21 August 1998 at 14:04:33 +0200, Gerald Ehritz wrote:
> On Sunos i used a tool called strace to trace systemcalls with their
> parameter.
> Today i downloaded the src but the package configure tells me that FreeBSD
> is not supported.
>
> Is there another tool to trace system calls on FreeBSD 2.2.7?
>
> I need it to check xdvi, which does not find the generated fonts.

The traditional BSD tool is ktrace.  FreeBSD also supplies an
implementation of truss.

Greg
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