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truss

Troubleshooting tool for tracing system calls. SunOS equivalent of strace. More information: https://www.unix.com/man-page/linux/1/truss.
  • Start tracing a program by executing it, following all child processes:
    truss -f {{program}}
  • Start tracing a specific process by its PID:
    truss -p {{pid}}
  • Start tracing a program by executing it, showing arguments and environment variables:
    truss -a -e {{program}}
  • Count time, calls, and errors for each system call and report a summary on program exit:
    truss -c -p {{pid}}
  • Trace a process filtering output by system call:
    truss -p {{pid}} -t {{system_call_name}}

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