ktrace as a replacement for strace

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Feb 08), Loren M. Lang said:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:24:29AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Feb 08), Loren M. Lang said:
> > > I'm looking for a replacement for the strace program I used to
> > > use on linux; freebsd has a port of strace, but it just hangs
> > > everytime I use it.  It looks like the bsd version of strace
> > > would be ktrace/kdump.  I was able to get these to print a trace
> > > of the program I ran, but it doesn't do all the nice substatuting
> > > that strace was able to do. Mainly, I just want the first
> > > argument of open to look like a string instead of a 32 bit
> > > pointer that I can't read.  I'm trying to figure out what files
> > > this program is trying to read so I can edit it's configuration
> > > file.
> > 
> > The string in the NAMI line immediately after an open() call is the
> > filename in kdump output.
> 
> Oh, I never noticed this since I was using grep to filter out the
> open suyscalls.  In strace everything is in one line.  Is there
> anything then that will work like the -e option in strace so I can
> list just the syscalls I want to see?

grep -A1 "CALL  open" is about the best you can do

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	Dan Nelson
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