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35 .Dd June 6, 1993
36 .Dt KDUMP 1
37 .Os
38 .Sh NAME
39 .Nm kdump
40 .Nd display kernel trace data
41 .Sh SYNOPSIS
42 .Nm
43 .Op Fl dnlRT
44 .Op Fl f Ar file
45 .Op Fl m Ar maxdata
46 .Op Fl t Op cnisuw
47 .Sh DESCRIPTION
48 The
49 .Nm
50 command displays the kernel trace files produced with
51 .Xr ktrace 1
52 in human readable format.
53 By default, the file
54 .Pa ktrace.out
55 in the current directory is displayed.
56 .Pp
57 The options are as follows:
58 .Bl -tag -width Fl
59 .It Fl d
60 Display all numbers in decimal.
61 .It Fl f Ar file
62 Display the specified file instead of
63 .Pa ktrace.out .
64 .It Fl l
65 Loop reading the trace file, once the end-of-file is reached, waiting for
66 more data.
67 .It Fl m Ar maxdata
68 Display at most
69 .Ar maxdata
70 bytes when decoding
71 .Tn I/O .
72 .It Fl n
73 Suppress ad hoc translations.
74 Normally
75 .Nm
76 tries to decode many system calls into a more human readable format.
77 For example,
78 .Xr ioctl 2
79 values are replaced with the macro name and
80 .Va errno
81 values are replaced with the
82 .Xr strerror 3
83 string.
84 Suppressing this feature yields a more consistent output format and is
85 easily amenable to further processing.
86 .It Fl R
87 Display relative timestamps (time since previous entry).
88 .It Fl T
89 Display absolute timestamps for each entry (seconds since epoch).
90 .It Fl t Ar cnisuw
91 See the
92 .Fl t
93 option of
94 .Xr ktrace 1 .
95 .El
96 .Sh SEE ALSO
97 .Xr ktrace 1
98 .Sh HISTORY
99 The
100 .Nm
101 command appeared in
102 .Bx 4.4 .