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Old 05-22-2008
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This functionality uis usually predicated on the ptrace (man ptrace) function under unixes. The userspace toolset depends. *BSD has ktrace, linux has strace, and solaris10 has a different method based on dtrace. Older solaris and aix has truss, HP-UX 11+ uses tusc.