Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011)

Re:Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011) by snissn on Sunday February 11, 2018 @05:56PM (#16355322)

Is there a substitute for mac/osx?

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Re:Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011) by dmix on Sunday February 11, 2018 @10:33PM (#16356332)

Note on new MacOS builds you will likely have to boot into recovery and run:

    csrutil enable --without dtrace

Otherwise you'll get a permissions error due to recent MacOS code signing protection... unless you copy the program you want to analyze to /tmp as a work around.

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Re:Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011) by zbentley on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:15PM (#16355385)

Dtruss: https://opensourcehacker.com/2011/12/02/osx-strace-equivalen...

Also, on OSX you have access to (mostly) the full power of dtrace, so you can do diagnostics on closed-source, debug-stripped running programs that make strace look small by comparison.

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Re:Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011) by slrz on Sunday February 11, 2018 @09:33PM (#16356131)

Just tried it on iTunes and it doesn't seem to work at all.

I already allowed myself to debug my own system by disabling "System Integrity" in recovery mode.

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Re:Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011) by tim-- on Sunday February 11, 2018 @10:23PM (#16356295)

A quick Google for `PT_DENY_ATTACH` and dtrace should solve that

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