ktrace

ktrace is a utility included with certain versions of BSD Unix and Mac OS X that traces kernel interaction with a program and dumps it to disk for the purposes of debugging and analysis. Traced kernel operations include system calls, name translations, signal processing, and I/O.[1]

ktrace
Written inC
Operating systemBSD Unix and Mac OS X
Available inEnglish
TypeTracing

Trace files generated by ktrace (named ktrace.out by default) can be viewed in human-readable form by using the kdump utility.[2]

Since Mac OS X Leopard, ktrace has been replaced by DTrace.

See also
  • DTrace, Sun Microsystems's trace version, now running on OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows
  • kdump (Linux), Linux kernel's crash dump mechanism, which internally uses kexec
  • SystemTap
  • trace on Linux, part of the Linux Trace Toolkit

References
  1. "ktrace". freebsd.org. 2012-05-31. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  2. "kdump". freebsd.org. 2014-03-28. Retrieved 2014-07-23.


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