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		spullara on Jan 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Strace - The Sysadmin's Microscope With dtrace you don't run your program as root. Dtrace runs as root. It isn't a launcher like strace.

onedognight on Jan 7, 2012 [–]

I'm referring to dtruss which is a launcher like strace and is built on dtrace. The dtruss "interface" predates dtrace, but historically didn't need to be run a root.

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