How to trace a program from its very beginning without running it as root

Question

I\'m writing a tool that calls through to DTrace to trace the program that the user specifies.

If my tool uses dtrace -c to run the program as a subprocess of DTrace, no

Answer 1

dtruss has the -n option where you can specify name of process you want to trace, without starting it (Credit to latter part of @kenorb's answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/11706251/970301). So something like the following should do it:

sudo dtruss -n "$program"
$program