The following are examples of pl_syscalls.d. This is a simple script to count executed Perl subroutines and system calls. Here it traces an example program, Code/Perl/func_abc.pl. # pl_syscalls.d -c ./func_abc.pl Function A Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to end. Function B Function C Calls for PID 305173, FILE TYPE NAME COUNT func_abc.pl sub func_a 1 func_abc.pl sub func_b 1 func_abc.pl sub func_c 1 func_abc.pl syscall fcntl 1 func_abc.pl syscall getrlimit 1 func_abc.pl syscall mmap 1 func_abc.pl syscall munmap 1 func_abc.pl syscall rexit 1 func_abc.pl syscall schedctl 1 func_abc.pl syscall sigpending 1 func_abc.pl syscall sysi86 1 func_abc.pl syscall getgid 2 func_abc.pl syscall getpid 2 func_abc.pl syscall getuid 2 func_abc.pl syscall sigaction 2 func_abc.pl syscall sysconfig 2 func_abc.pl syscall fstat64 3 func_abc.pl syscall nanosleep 3 func_abc.pl syscall read 3 func_abc.pl syscall setcontext 3 func_abc.pl syscall write 3 func_abc.pl syscall close 4 func_abc.pl syscall ioctl 4 func_abc.pl syscall open64 4 func_abc.pl syscall llseek 5 func_abc.pl syscall gtime 7 func_abc.pl syscall brk 20 While tracing, three subroutines were called - func_a(), func_b() and func_c(). There were numerous system calls made, including 20 brk()'s, 7 gtime()'s and 5 llseek()'s. This script can provide an insight to how an application is interacting with the system, by providing both application subroutine calls and system calls in the same output.