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From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
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Subject: dtrace -c doesn't work?
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Well, I've decided to try to learn dtrace to do some benchmarking, and
so I tried to use -c to measure what the command does... except it seems
to fail...

even the simple:
dtrace -n 'syscall:::entry { @num[execname] = count(); }' -c 'echo foo'

doesn't work...  it gives me:
# dtrace -n 'syscall:::entry { @num[execname] = count(); }' -c 'echo foo'
foo
dtrace: failed to control pid 3766: process exited with status 0

ktrace shows it execing /bin/echo and it running fine, but for some
reason dtrace can't handle it...

P.S. Why are dtrace and dtraceall seperate?

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