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echo: os2prog
to: Mike Bilow
from: Russell Coker
date: 1996-05-02 22:45:12
subject: strace/2

MB> The debugging kernel for OS/2 allows this kind of 
 MB> functionality, but I warn you that tracing every API 
 MB> call will be painfully slow.  You need some knowledge 
 MB> about the internal symbols used by the kernel, but the 
 MB> documentation for the debugging kernel (KDEBUG.INF) 
 MB> gives you this.

   Why would tracing every API call be painfully slow?  It's not painfully
slow on Linux...

  Would it be possible to write an "strace" type program for
OS/2?  If so how would I start?


  Russell Coker


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