macosx-debug.rst
author Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:46:36 +0200
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Include only local subsections into TOC. This prevent duplication of TOC when build single page HTML document. Also this make unnecessary CSS hack to hide document title as top level section.

.. -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
.. include:: HEADER.rst

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 Debugging in Mac OS X.
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.. contents::
   :local:

dtruss.
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  $ dtruss df -h     # run and examine the "df -h" command
  $ dtruss -p 1871   # examine PID 1871
  $ dtruss -n tar    # examine all processes called "tar"

dtrace.
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::

  $ man -k dtrace
  $ dapptrace

See:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dtrace
                Wikipedia home page.

ktrace.
=======

Log files generated by ``ktrace`` are viewable in human-readable form using
``kdump``.

Since Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, ktrace has been replaced by dtrace.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktrace
                Wikipedia home page.