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Developing and Porting C and C++ Applications on AIX
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Developing and Porting C and C++ Applications on AIX

by Keigo Matsubara, Edison Kwok, Inge Rodriguez, Murali Paramasivam
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
540 pages
11h 43m
English
IBM Redbooks
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7.5. Debugging with the truss command

The truss command traces library and system calls and signal activity for a process.[3] It allows you to see all the system calls being made by a process, the parameters passed by those calls, and any data or errors returned from those calls. You can watch what your application is requesting from AIX and the results of those requests on live.

[3] The truss command has been supported on AIX, starting from Version 5.1. Several enhancements have been made in AIX 5L Version 5.2.

To demonstrate how it works, we present an application, which is composed of the four source files shown in Example 7-4.

Example 7-4. Source codes of prog_to_truss
 /* main.c */ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { func9_1(1); func9_3(2); ...
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