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36.Dd December 28, 2000
37.Dt UTRACE 2
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm utrace
41.Nd insert user record to ktrace records
42.Sh LIBRARY
43.Lb libc
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/types.h\*[Gt]
46.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/param.h\*[Gt]
47.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/time.h\*[Gt]
48.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/uio.h\*[Gt]
49.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/ktrace.h\*[Gt]
50.Ft int
51.Fn utrace "const char *label" "void *addr" "size_t len"
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53Adds a record to process trace with information supplied by user.
54The record is identified by
55.Fa label
56and contains
57.Fa len
58bytes from memory pointed to by
59.Fa addr .
60This call has only effect if the caller process is being traced.
61.Sh RETURN VALUES
62Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
63Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
64.Va errno
65is set to indicate the error.
66.Sh ERRORS
67.Bl -tag -width Er
68.It Bq Er ENOSYS
69Currently running kernel was compiled without
70.Xr ktrace 2
71support (option KTRACE).
72.It Bq Er EINVAL
73Specified data length
74.Fa len
75was bigger than
76.Dv KTR_USER_MAXLEN .
77.El
78.Sh SEE ALSO
79.Xr kdump 1 ,
80.Xr ktrace 1 ,
81.Xr ktruss 1 ,
82.Xr fktrace 2 ,
83.Xr ktrace 2 ,
84.Xr options 4
85.Sh HISTORY
86The
87.Fn utrace
88system call first appeared in
89.Fx 2.2 .
90It was added to
91.Nx
92in
93.Nx 1.6 .
94The
95.Fa label
96argument is
97.Nx
98extension.
99