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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: tracing system calls
Keywords: truss syscall & trace
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Date: 3 Sep 88 19:12:53 GMT
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In article <7460@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:

>Is there any possible way to write a similar
>program under SysVr3 without kernel modifications?

You could recompile the C library to intercept every system call
and then recompile the world. I suggest you don't do that.

It would be easier to upgrade to SVR3.2 which includes the /proc driver
and the truss program. (I don't remember if the SVR3.1 release had it,
but I don't think so).
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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