What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment

apptrace

A new application debugging tool, apptrace enables application developers and system support personnel to debug application or system problems by providing call traces to Solaris shared libraries, which may show the series of events leading up to a point of failure.

The apptrace tool provides more reliable call-tracing than the previously available sotruss command. It also provides better display of function arguments, return values, and error cases for any Solaris library interface.

By default, apptrace traces calls directly from the executable object, specified on the command line, to every shared library the executable depends on.

For more information, see the man page apptrace(1).