Monday, October 19, 2009

ktrace – FreeBSD / Mac OS X Process Tracing and Reporting Tool

ktrace – FreeBSD / Mac OS X Process Tracing and Reporting Tool

by Vivek Gite · 2 comments

Under Linux you can use strace or valgrind tool for reporting and finding a bug. However, under *BSD / Mac OS X you need to use ktrace as replacement for strace tool.
kreace runs on the following platforms:
=> FreeBSD
=> OpenBSD
=> Mac OS X
=> NetBSD
The ktrace utility enables kernel trace logging for the specified processes.

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