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Old 05-22-2008
jiten_hegde jiten_hegde is offline
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A program to trace execution of another program
Hi,

I wanted to know if i can write a program using switches and signals, etc to trace execution of other unix program which calls c program internally.

If yes how? If not with signals and switches then are there any other methods apart from debugging with gdb/dbx.
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Hi
Perhaps you might read the source code of strace command. I think it is what you want.

Hope it helps!
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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.
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hey thanks tusc seems good.
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