* Re: Debugging Cygwin apps with dtrace for windows?
2023-08-31 22:49 Debugging Cygwin apps with dtrace for windows? Joshuah Hurst
@ 2023-09-01 0:21 ` Brian Inglis
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From: Brian Inglis @ 2023-09-01 0:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin; +Cc: Joshuah Hurst
On 2023-08-31 16:49, Joshuah Hurst via Cygwin wrote:
> Has anyone tested if dtrace for windows
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/dtrace
> can be used to debug cygwin apps?
It does not appear to be usable as an application debugger, rather providing
diagnostics about system call level behavioural anomalies, sampling system state
with predefined interpreted AWK/C-like "D" scripts.
It appears to be a system call probe and event tracing and data collection tool,
requiring a feature built in to recent Windows enabled, possibly built on Event
Tracing for Windows, drivers, utilities, and matching OS symbols installed,
offering command line initiated probe, event, executable, and user "D" script
selection.
For cygwin executables, strace provides similar capabilities.
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