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