non-responding processes after truss(1)ing

[Mark Saad]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 9/27/2011 1:10 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>>
>> kill -9 your truss processes; the underlying processes which you are
>> truss'ing will probably resume.
>>
>> My experience for years has been that truss on FreeBSD is extremely
>> buggy and cannot be relied upon (case in point).  Such is still the case
>> on RELENG_8 as of today.
>>
>> Use ktrace(1) instead.  You'll find it to work pretty much in every
>> situation.
>>

What about using dtruss in place of truss is the dtrace implementation
of truss any better then the old libkvm ?

>
> Thanks, that worked. I'll use ktrace from now on.
>
> Nikos
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