On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:11:41PM +0000, Mark wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:00:46PM -0700, Jos Backus allegedly wrote:
> > But FreeBSD does have a (procfs-based) truss.
>
> Right. But it suffers from the same problem that ktrace does in that
> it starts with the next system call, not the current one. Leastwise it
> does on a 4.3 I have access to, do you get something different?
Nope (I'm still at PRE_SMPNG, waiting for -current to stabilize (hah!)).
One idea would be to run the process under truss, and pipe the truss output
through multilog, providing one with a syscall activity history without the
danger of filling up partitions (as would likely happen when using ktrace).
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