Truss & finding a working tracer

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:01:50PM -0600, David S. Besade wrote:
> Hey guys
> 
> I am trying to trace an application for another list to get it working but I
> am running into the following issues:
> 
> tried to build ltrace but found out its only for i386 machines, mine is
> AMD64 Based (Nocona Cored Xeons) so it would build. I found out the same
> with strace.

Have you tried ktrace? It's part of the base system. I've found it very
usefull.

> Now I have truss but alas its not working properly yet I keep getting errors
> like this:
> 
> s3# truss /bin/echo hello
> truss: cannot open /proc/39477/mem: No such file or directory
> truss: cannot open /proc/curproc/mem: No such file or directory
> s3# 

Is the /proc filesystem mounted?

Roland
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