Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 04:55:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: trace/KTRACE Message-ID: <199807031155.EAA15761@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199807030924.LAA20365@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> from Christoph Kukulies at "Jul 3, 98 11:24:53 am"
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Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>
> Or are there any other ways (other than profiling, which is also an a
> posteriori method) to 'watch' what an app does?
Sean Eric Fagan (sp?) wrote a truss for FreeBSD.
write-up appeared in Dr Dobb's Journal.
is this what you are looking for?
Aspen:[10] truss cat /etc/resolv.conf
syscall open("/etc/resolv.conf",0,00)
returns 3 (0x3)
syscall fstat(1,0xefbfd754)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall readlink("/etc/malloc.conf",0xefbfd6e0,63)
errno 2 'No such file or directory'
syscall mmap(0x0,4096,0x3,0x1002,-1,0x0)
returns 536924160 (0x2000d000)
syscall break(0x12000)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall break(0x22000)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall read(0x3,0x12000,0x10000)
returns 161 (0xa1)
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namsserver 192.168.250.1 # ourselves
nameserver 198.35.131.208 # primary.frb.gov
nameserver 198.35.166.183 # irmmp4.frb.gov
syscall write(1,0x12000,161)
returns 161 (0xa1)
syscall read(0x3,0x12000,0x10000)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall close(3)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall close(1)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall exit(0x0)
process exit, rval = 0
jmb
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