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To: "Gasparovski / Daniel (ISE)" <u923168@student.canberra.edu.au>
cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ktrace 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 Dec 94 01:29:02 +1100."
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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 10:46:11 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I have a problem: ktrace sucks :)

Clearly someone who hasn't been developing under UNIX for a long time..
We would have _killed_ for ktrace back in the V7 days! :-)

Anyway, it may suck in many ways, but it's sure nicer to have than not
to have, and I'm pretty used to not having it so when I first saw it
in FreeBSD I went "Cowabunga!", or something to that effect.. :-)

> I'd like to see ktrace act little more like "strace", which is available 
> on Sun's and Linux I beleive.  strace in this case would have shown:

Well, why not research it?  Find out just what it'd take and get
back to us! :)

					Jordan