I wanted to trace the system calls made by the find command to debug some performance issues however I could not figure out how to do this on Mac OS X Yosemite. How can I trace system calls for an ...

I've recently decided to learn more about systems programming, and felt it would be helpful to see what my code is actually doing under the hood. To do this, I wrote a short LinkedList class in C+...

I was trying to see which syscall ps uses to get the command line of a process on OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), and ran into the following error: # dtruss ps -p 43520 -o args dtrace: failed to execute...

If I write var moment = require('moment'); in my project, Node wastes a lot of time looking in places that do not actually contain the file, as this dtruss output shows. PID/THRD RELATIVE SYSC...

The dtruss man page says: -f follow children as they are forked which sounds like exactly what I want. However, observe the following behavior: WhiteAndNerdy% uname -a Darwin WhiteAndNerdy.loc...