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-strace is a system call tracing program similar to ktruss that uses PT_SYSCALL
+Strace is a diagnostic and troubleshooting tool for printing out a trace
+of all the system calls made by another process. It intercepts and
+records the signals received by a process and the system calls which
+are called by a process. The name of each system call, its arguments
+and its return value are reported.
+
+This version of strace is maintained by Wichert Akkerman.