Thank you Phil and Peter - I think this is just what I was looking for. I appreciate your help!
Peter On 11/19/09 12:13, Phil Harman wrote: > Check out this blog post from Chris Gerhard ... > > http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/follow_fork_for_dtrace_pid > > Peter Shoults wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am tracking down a problem and would like to know how I can follow a >> forked process with my dtrace script, or how I can trace a dynamic >> library. >> >> Here is the problem. I am tracing dtlogin, and specifically I am trying >> to determine what error libpkcs11`<routine> is returning. It turns out >> dtlogin forks a lot of processes, and I believe the second forked >> process is the one that winds up having a failing call to >> libpkcs11`<routine>. Of course, when I start dtrace, the forked process >> is not yet created, so I can not specify that. Also, it appears I can >> not just trace on libpkcs11`<routine> as libpkcs11 is only traceable >> with a process that has it loaded. >> >> So, the questions are: >> >> How can I get dtrace to follow and trace forked processes? >> How can I get dtrace to trace anything with libpkcs11 for any process >> that is running or will be created and running in the future on a >> system? >> >> Peter >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dtrace-discuss mailing list >> dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org >> > _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org
