1.\" $FreeBSD$ 2.\" 3.Dd February 23, 2016 4.Dt TRUSS 1 5.Os 6.Sh NAME 7.Nm truss 8.Nd trace system calls 9.Sh SYNOPSIS 10.Nm 11.Op Fl facedDHS 12.Op Fl o Ar file 13.Op Fl s Ar strsize 14.Fl p Ar pid 15.Nm 16.Op Fl facedDHS 17.Op Fl o Ar file 18.Op Fl s Ar strsize 19.Ar command Op Ar args 20.Sh DESCRIPTION 21The 22.Nm 23utility traces the system calls called by the specified process or program. 24Output is to the specified output file, or standard error by default. 25It does this by stopping and restarting the process being monitored via 26.Xr ptrace 2 . 27.Pp 28The options are as follows: 29.Bl -tag -width indent 30.It Fl f 31Trace descendants of the original traced process created by 32.Xr fork 2 , 33.Xr vfork 2 , 34etc. 35To distinguish events between processes, 36the process ID 37.Pq PID 38of the process is included in the output of each event. 39.It Fl a 40Show the argument strings that are passed in each 41.Xr execve 2 42system call. 43.It Fl c 44Do not display individual system calls or signals. 45Instead, before exiting, print a summary containing for each system call: 46the total system time used, 47the number of times the call was invoked, 48and the number of times the call returned with an error. 49.It Fl e 50Show the environment strings that are passed in each 51.Xr execve 2 52system call. 53.It Fl d 54Include timestamps in the output showing the time elapsed 55since the trace was started. 56.It Fl D 57Include timestamps in the output showing the time elapsed 58since the last recorded event. 59.It Fl H 60Include the thread ID of in the output of each event. 61.It Fl S 62Do not display information about signals received by the process. 63(Normally, 64.Nm 65displays signal as well as system call events.) 66.It Fl o Ar file 67Print the output to the specified 68.Ar file 69instead of standard error. 70.It Fl s Ar strsize 71Display strings using at most 72.Ar strsize 73characters. 74If the buffer is larger, 75.Dq Li ... 76will be displayed at the end of the string. 77The default 78.Ar strsize 79is 32. 80.It Fl p Ar pid 81Follow the process specified by 82.Ar pid 83instead of a new command. 84.It Ar command Op Ar args 85Execute 86.Ar command 87and trace the system calls of it. 88(The 89.Fl p 90and 91.Ar command 92options are mutually exclusive.) 93.El 94.Sh EXAMPLES 95# Follow the system calls used in echoing "hello" 96.Dl $ truss /bin/echo hello 97# Do the same, but put the output into a file 98.Dl $ truss -o /tmp/truss.out /bin/echo hello 99# Follow an already-running process 100.Dl $ truss -p 34 101.Sh SEE ALSO 102.Xr kdump 1 , 103.Xr ktrace 1 , 104.Xr ptrace 2 , 105.Xr utrace 2 106.Sh HISTORY 107The 108.Nm 109command was written by 110.An Sean Eric Fagan 111for 112.Fx . 113It was modeled after 114similar commands available for System V Release 4 and SunOS. 115