ltrace equivalent for osx?

Question

osx has the really powerful dtrace/ktrace/dtruss tools - however i\'m not willing to invest the time necessary to learn dealing with them right now.

what\'s the easi

Answer 1

No answer for ltrace (except perhaps "work out how to use dtrace" :-) ), but for system call tracing ala strace, dtruss is a pretty good front end to dtrace.

e.g.

dtruss df -h     # run and examine the "df -h" command

dtruss -p 1871   # examine PID 1871

dtruss -n tar    # examine all processes called "tar"