NAME
utrace —
insert user record in ktrace
log
LIBRARY
library “libc”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/param.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/uio.h>
#include <sys/ktrace.h>
int
utrace(const
void *addr, size_t
len);
DESCRIPTION
Adds a record to the process trace with information supplied by user. The record contains len bytes from memory pointed to by addr. This call only has an effect if the calling process is being traced.RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
- [
EINVAL] - Specified data length len was bigger than
KTR_USER_MAXLEN. - [
ENOMEM] - Insufficient memory to honor the request.
- [
ENOSYS] - Currently running kernel was compiled without
ktrace(2) support (
options KTRACE).
SEE ALSO
kdump(1), ktrace(1), truss(1), ktrace(2), sysdecode_utrace(3)
HISTORY
The utrace() system call first appeared in
FreeBSD 2.2.