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DTrace vs ltrace

A side-by-side look at DTrace and ltrace. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

DTrace

DTrace

Os & Utilities

DTrace is a dynamic tracing framework created by Sun Microsystems for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time. It allows administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs.

tracingtroubleshootingdebugging
ltrace

ltrace

Development

ltrace is a debugging utility that intercepts and records dynamic library calls which are called by an executed process. It can be used to trace calls made by programs to shared libraries and helps debug issues caused by dynamic linking.

librarydebuggingtracingdynamic-linking

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