freebsd-nq/usr.sbin/boottrace/boottrace.8
Mitchell Horne 13ec1e3155 boottrace(8): small wrapper utility
This is a small program that when invoked will create start and stop
boottrace entries via sysctl, and execute the desired command. Having
this as an executable -- as opposed to some shell script invoking
sysctl(8) -- allows the total resource usage recorded by the trace
entries to include the child process.

Reviewed by:	0mp, trasz (older version)
Sponsored by:	NetApp, Inc.
Sponsored by:	Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31929
2022-02-21 20:16:12 -04:00

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.Dd February 18, 2022
.Dt BOOTTRACE 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm boottrace
.Nd trace command execution with
.Xr boottrace 4
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Ar utility Op Ar argument ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility
executes the specified
.Ar utility ,
creating two
.Xr boottrace 4
trace entries before and after its execution.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The
.Ev PATH
environment variable is used to locate the requested
.Ar utility
if the name contains no
.Ql /
characters.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
If
.Ar utility
was executed successfully, its exit status is returned.
.Pp
If
.Ar utility
was found but could not be executed, an exit status of 126 is returned.
If
.Ar utility
could not be found, an exit status of 127 is returned.
.Sh EXAMPLES
Execute the
.Xr dumpon 8
utility, logging the trace entries:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ boottrace dumpon -z /dev/gpt/swap0
.Ed
.Pp
This will appear in the output of the
.Va kern.boottrace.log
.Xr sysctl 8
node:
.Bd -literal
CPU msecs delta process event PID CPUtime IBlks OBlks
0 63918567 0 kernel sysinit 0x2100001 0 0.00 0 0
[...]
0 64076940 120605 boottrace dumpon start 1602 0.00 0 0
0 64076942 2 boottrace dumpon done 1602 0.00 0 0
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr boottrace 4 ,
.Xr rc.subr 8