On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Mark Johnston <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 04:26:54PM -0800, hiren panchasara wrote: >> $ sudo dtrace -n 'proc:::exec-success { trace(curpsinfo->pr_psargs); }' >> dtrace: description 'proc:::exec-success ' matched 1 probe >> CPU ID FUNCTION:NAME >> 5 48876 :exec-success /bin/sh /usr/bin/man ls >> 2 48876 :exec-success /sbin/sysctl -n hw.machine_arch >> 6 48876 :exec-success /sbin/sysctl -n hw.machine >> 0 48876 :exec-success /usr/bin/locale >> 7 48876 :exec-success /usr/bin/zcat >> /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz >> 2 48876 :exec-success head -1 >> 1 48876 :exec-success tbl >> 6 48876 :exec-success groff -S -P-h -Wall >> -mtty-char -man -Tascii -P-c >> 7 48876 :exec-success /usr/bin/zcat >> /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz >> 3 48876 :exec-success less >> 3 48876 :exec-success troff -Wall -mtty-char >> -man -Tascii >> 7 48876 :exec-success grotty -h -c >> >> >> 6 48876 :exec-success top >> 7 48876 :exec-success ps awwux >> 7 48876 :exec-success iostat >> 5 48876 :exec-success vmstat 1 >> 4 48876 :exec-success bash >> 4 48876 :exec-success whois >> 5 48876 :exec-success whoami >> 4 48876 :exec-success devinfo >> 4 48876 :exec-success dmesg >> 6 48876 :exec-success pciconf -lv >> >> I am getting interesting info only when "man" is executed and not for >> any other command. What does that tell me? How is man special? Other >> programs must also be doing exec(2), no? > > /usr/bin/man is a shell script. You'll see similar output for any > executable that starts with a shebang.
Thanks Mark for responding but that doesn't seem true. I tried apropos(1) without luck. cheers, Hiren _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-dtrace To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
