strace port nonfunctional

[Peter Jeffery]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Kiesel" <alex.kiesel at document-root.de>
To: "Peter Jeffery" <peterj at qubesoft.com>
Cc: <ports at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: strace port nonfunctional


> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:57 +0100, Peter Jeffery wrote:
>> running a stable world (5.3 beta) as of this morning with the latest port 
>> of
>> strace I get this behaviour:
>>
>> -bash-2.05b$ strace ls
>> strace: open("/proc/...", ...): No such file or directory
>> trouble opening proc file
>
> strace needs a mounted /proc. Just do
>
> # mount -t procfs procfs /proc
>
> and it should work.

Thank you. I eventually found this piece of info hiding away in a dark 
corner.

Does anybody know if strace is being ported to use ptrace instead of procfs 
or shall I have a look at doing it ?