TRACE-CMD-START(1) libtracefs Manual TRACE-CMD-START(1)
NAME
trace-cmd-start - start the Ftrace Linux kernel tracer without
recording
SYNOPSIS
trace-cmd start [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
The trace-cmd(1) start enables all the Ftrace tracing the same way
trace-cmd-record(1) does. The difference is that it does not run
threads to create a trace.dat file. This is useful just to enable
Ftrace and you are only interested in the trace after some event has
occurred and the trace is stopped. Then the trace can be read straight
from the Ftrace pseudo file system or can be extracted with
trace-cmd-extract(1).
OPTIONS
The options are the same as trace-cmd-record(1), except that it does
not take options specific to recording (-s, -o, -N, and -t).
--fork
This option is only available for trace-cmd start. It tells
trace-cmd to not wait for the process to finish before returning.
With this option, trace-cmd start will return right after it forks
the process on the command line. This option only has an effect if
trace-cmd start also executes a command.
SEE ALSO
trace-cmd(1), trace-cmd-record(1), trace-cmd-report(1),
trace-cmd-stop(1), trace-cmd-extract(1), trace-cmd-reset(1),
trace-cmd-split(1), trace-cmd-list(1), trace-cmd-listen(1)
AUTHOR
Written by Steven Rostedt, <rostedt@goodmis.org[1]>
RESOURCES
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/trace-cmd/trace-cmd.git/
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc. Free use of this software is granted
under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).
NOTES
1. rostedt@goodmis.org
mailto:rostedt@goodmis.org
libtracefs 04/08/2024 TRACE-CMD-START(1)
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