NetBSD/lib/libc/sys/utrace.2

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.\" $NetBSD: utrace.2,v 1.3 2001/01/24 23:43:43 jdolecek Exp $
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.Dd December 28, 2000
.Dt UTRACE 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm utrace
.Nd insert user record to ktrace records
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
.Fd #include <sys/param.h>
.Fd #include <sys/time.h>
.Fd #include <sys/uio.h>
.Fd #include <sys/ktrace.h>
.Ft int
.Fn utrace "const char *label" "void *addr" "size_t len"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Adds a record to process trace with information supplied by user.
The record is identified by
.Fa label
and contains
.Fa len
bytes from memory pointed to by
.Fa addr.
This call has only effect if the caller process is being traced.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.
.Sh ERRORS
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er ENOSYS
Currently running kernel was compiled without
.Xr ktrace 2
support (option KTRACE).
.It Bq Er EINVAL
Specified data length
.Fa len
was bigger than
.Dv KTR_USER_MAXLEN .
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kdump 1 ,
.Xr ktrace 1 ,
.Xr ktruss 1 ,
.Xr fktrace 2 ,
.Xr ktrace 2 ,
.Xr options 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn utrace
system call first appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .
It was added to
.Nx
in
.Nx 1.6 .
The
.Fa label
argument is NetBSD extension.