truss is a new utility, provided to trace system calls performed, signals received, and machine faults incurred. It also has an option that enables entry and exit tracing of user-level function calls executed by the traced process. truss offers several significant improvements over the SunOS release 4 trace(1) command, including the ability to follow forked processes and to deal with multithreaded processes.
Also, the truss utility traces the system calls, signals, and machine faults of a process. It has been enhanced with a new option to enable entry and exit tracing of user-level function calls executed by the traced process.
The following example shows a summary of traced calls for the date command. With the -c option, truss does not display the trace line by line. Instead, it counts the system calls, signals, and faults, and displays a summary.
example% truss -c date Fri Sep 18 14:31:30 PDT 1992 syscall seconds calls errors _exit .00 1 read .00 7 write .00 1 open .03 12 close .00 12 time .00 1 brk .01 4 lseek .00 1 fstat .00 4 ioctl .00 1 execve .00 1 mmap .01 17 munmap .00 8 ---- --- --- sys totals: .05 70 0 usr time: .03 elapsed: .28 |
See the truss(1) man page for complete details on all truss options. There are a number of other Solaris 7 debugging tools based on proc(4) such as pmap(1).