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.\" @(#)ktrace.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd June 4, 1993
.Dt KTRACE 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ktrace
.Nd process tracing
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.In sys/time.h
.In sys/uio.h
.In sys/ktrace.h
.Ft int
.Fn ktrace "const char *tracefile" "int ops" "int trpoints" "int pid"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn ktrace
system call enables or disables tracing of one or more processes.
Users may only trace their own processes.
Only the super-user can trace setuid or setgid programs.
.Pp
The
.Fa tracefile
gives the pathname of the file to be used for tracing.
The file must exist and be a regular file writable by the calling process.
All trace records are always appended to the file,
so the file must be truncated to zero length to discard
previous trace data.
If tracing points are being disabled (see KTROP_CLEAR below),
.Fa tracefile
may be NULL.
.Pp
The
.Fa ops
parameter specifies the requested ktrace operation.
The defined operations are:
.Bl -column KTRFLAG_DESCENDXXX -offset indent
.It "KTROP_SET Enable trace points specified in"
.Fa trpoints .
.It "KTROP_CLEAR Disable trace points specified in
.Fa trpoints .
.It "KTROP_CLEARFILE Stop all tracing."
.It "KTRFLAG_DESCEND The tracing change should apply to the"
specified process and all its current children.
.El
.Pp
The
.Fa trpoints
parameter specifies the trace points of interest.
The defined trace points are:
.Bl -column KTRFAC_SYSCALLXXX -offset indent
.It "KTRFAC_SYSCALL Trace system calls."
.It "KTRFAC_SYSRET Trace return values from system calls."
.It "KTRFAC_NAMEI Trace name lookup operations."
.It "KTRFAC_GENIO Trace all I/O (note that this option can"
generate much output).
.It "KTRFAC_PSIG Trace posted signals."
.It "KTRFAC_CSW Trace context switch points."
.It "KTRFAC_INHERIT Inherit tracing to future children."
.El
.Pp
Each tracing event outputs a record composed of a generic header
followed by a trace point specific structure.
The generic header is:
.Bd -literal
struct ktr_header {
int ktr_len; /* length of buf */
short ktr_type; /* trace record type */
pid_t ktr_pid; /* process id */
char ktr_comm[MAXCOMLEN+1]; /* command name */
struct timeval ktr_time; /* timestamp */
caddr_t ktr_buf;
};
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Va ktr_len
field specifies the length of the
.Va ktr_type
data that follows this header.
The
.Va ktr_pid
and
.Va ktr_comm
fields specify the process and command generating the record.
The
.Va ktr_time
field gives the time (with microsecond resolution)
that the record was generated.
The
.Va ktr_buf
is an internal kernel pointer and is not useful.
.Pp
The generic header is followed by
.Va ktr_len
bytes of a
.Va ktr_type
record.
The type specific records are defined in the
.Aq Pa sys/ktrace.h
include file.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Rv -std ktrace
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn ktrace
system call
will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
.It Bq Er ENOENT
The named tracefile does not exist.
.It Bq Er EACCES
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
.It Bq Er ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
.It Bq Er EIO
An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
.It Bq Er ENOSYS
The kernel was not compiled with
.Nm
support.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kdump 1 ,
.Xr ktrace 1
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn ktrace
system call first appeared in
.Bx 4.4 .
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