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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gregg, Brendan.
  Dynamic tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD / Brendan
Gregg, Jim Mauro.
         p. cm.
  Includes index.
  ISBN-13: 978-0-13-209151-0 (alk. paper)
   ISBN-10: 0-13-209151-8 (alk. paper)
 1.  Debugging in computer science. 2.  Solaris (Computer file) 3.  Mac
 OS. 4.  FreeBSD.  I. Mauro, Jim. II. Title.
  QA76.9.D43G74 2011
  005.1'4—dc22
                                                                                           2010047609

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ISBN-13: 978-0-13-209151-0

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