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    <p>OS X lacks linux's <code>strace</code>, but it has <code>dtrace</code> which is supposed to be so much better. </p> <p>However, I miss the ability to do simple tracing on individual commands. For example, on linux I can write <code>strace -f gcc hello.c</code> to caputre all system calls, which gives me the list of <em>all</em> the filenames needed by the compiler to compile my program (the excellent <a href="http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~billm/memoize.html" rel="noreferrer">memoize</a> script is built upon this trick)</p> <p>I want to port memoize on the mac, so I need some kind of <code>strace</code>. What I actually need is the list of files <code>gcc</code> reads and writes into, so what I need is more of a <code>truss</code>. Sure enough can I say <code>dtruss -f gcc hello.c</code> and get somewhat the same functionality, but then the compiler is run with root priviledges, which is obviously undesirable (apart from the massive security risk, one issue is that the <code>a.out</code> file is now owned by root :-)</p> <p>I then tried <code>dtruss -f sudo -u myusername gcc hello.c</code>, but this feels a bit wrong, and does not work anyway (I get no <code>a.out</code> file at all this time, not sure why)</p> <p>All that long story tries to motivate my original question: <strong>how do I get <code>dtrace</code> to run my command with normal user privileges, just like <code>strace</code> does in linux ?</strong></p> <p>Edit: is seems that I'm not the only one wondering how to do this: question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1204256/how-to-trace-a-program-from-its-very-beginning-without-running-it-as-root">#1204256</a> is pretty much the same as mine (and has the same suboptimal sudo answer :-) </p>
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