2001-05-15 21:52:44 +02:00
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Strace is a process tracer, i.e. a debugging tool that prints out
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a trace of all the system calls made and signals received by a
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process itself or a process and its descendants.
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2001-09-07 14:50:30 +02:00
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Strace is similar to the native BSD ``truss'' utility, but it's
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output style is more convenient in most cases.
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2001-05-15 21:52:44 +02:00
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2007-12-20 21:40:26 +01:00
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For strace to work, procfs has to be mounted. FreeBSD does not
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mount it by default. For more information, man procfs.
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2005-11-26 01:29:59 +01:00
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WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/
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