I've submitted PR33874 that implements a version of pstack for FreeBSD.
(er, actually due to "difficulties" with our mail server, it's logged
twice, the second being 33873: can someone delete one of them?)

Jos, if its still of use to you, can you see if it works?
Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:02:09PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Jos Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  > ----- Forwarded message from Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
> >  > +1.  =)  I've talked to the FreeBSD people and they just laugh
> >  > maniacally when I ask for a truss that follows children.  AIUI,
> >  > NetBSD has this, so it is possible to port these changes over,
> >  > but it requires an overhaul to procfs from what I've been told.
> >  >
> >  > FreeBSD has a long way to get the stellar debugging capabilities
> >  > of Solaris.  -- justin
> >
> > I think that the output from FreeBSD's truss is pretty
> > pathetic and unusable.  ktrace is somewhat better.
> 
> Mmmm - I can't compare...
> On alpha:
> ===>  Building for strace-4.4
> cc -b alpha--freebsd5.0 -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I. -Ifreebsd/alpha 
>-I./freebsd/alpha -Ifreebsd  -I./freebsd -D_GNU_SOURCE -O -pipe -mcpu=ev56 -c strace.c
> In file included from strace.c:34:
> defs.h:96: #error "FreeBSD support is only for i386 arch right now."
> strace.c: In function `trace':
> strace.c:1461: warning: label `FOUND' defined but not used
> *** Error code 1
> 
> I asume this should be tagged i386 only in the port.
> 
> On i386:
> ticso@cicely5# strace sleep 1
> strace: PIOCSTATUS: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> trouble opening proc file
> Exit 1
> 
> > PS:  I tried strace under -stable only.  I don't know if
> > it works under -current as well.
> 
> Seems not.
> 
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