Is there a workaround for: “dtrace cannot control executables signed with restricted entitlements”?

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Following up to Alexander Ushakov and Charles’ answers:

Once you csrutil enable --without dtrace, there is an alternative to copying the binary: run the binary in one Terminal window and trace the Terminal process itself in another Terminal window.

In the first terminal window, find its PID:

$ echo $$
1154

In the second terminal window, begin the trace:

$ sudo dtruss -p 1154 -f

Back, in the first terminal window, run the process you want to trace:

$ ls

At this point, you should see the trace in the second window. Ignore the entries for the PID you are tracing (e.g., 1154), and the rest are for the process (and its descendants) you are interested in.

1154/0x1499:  sigprocmask(0x3, 0x7FFF53E5C608, 0x0)      = 0x0 0
1154/0x1499:  sigprocmask(0x1, 0x7FFF53E5C614, 0x7FFF53E5C610)       = 0x0 0
3100/0xa9f3:  getpid(0x7FFF82A35344, 0x7FFF82A35334, 0x2000)         = 3100 0
3100/0xa9f3:  sigprocmask(0x3, 0x10BE32EF8, 0x0)         = 0x0 0

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