From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 17 13:13:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA24801 for current-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 13:13:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA24796 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 13:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <16033(10)>; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 13:12:25 PDT Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-TB) id AA07747; Mon, 17 Jun 96 16:11:51 EDT Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19424; Mon, 17 Jun 96 16:11:50 EDT Message-Id: <9606172011.AA19424@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.6 3/24/96 To: Bruce Evans Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, nate@sri.mt.net Subject: Re: ktrace [Was: 2.2-960612-SNAP resolver problems] In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jun 1996 19:11:38 PDT." <199606160211.MAA00203@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 13:11:47 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I like Rick Sladkey's strace (I use it on sun and linux). Since it runs on sun, how hard would it be to port to freebsd? I don't like the attitude: If you want to do something, recompile the kernel. strace is incredibly useful (I've never used ktrace, I've never had a kernel with support for it...or learned how to use it). I really find the flexibility of strace very good (the little I read about ktrace, its much more limited ). It also has all types of nice ability to filter selective calls. -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom