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+#ifndef _XRDPOSIX_TRACE_H
+#define _XRDPOSIX_TRACE_H
+/******************************************************************************/
+/*                                                                            */
+/*                      X r d P o s i x T r a c e . h h                       */
+/*                                                                            */
+/* (c) 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University  */
+/*                            All Rights Reserved                             */
+/*   Produced by Andrew Hanushevsky for Stanford University under contract    */
+/*              DE-AC02-76-SFO0515 with the Department of Energy              */
+/*                                                                            */
+/* This file is part of the XRootD software suite.                            */
+/*                                                                            */
+/* XRootD is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under    */
+/* the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the     */
+/* Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your     */
+/* option) any later version.                                                 */
+/*                                                                            */
+/* XRootD is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT      */
+/* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or      */
+/* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public       */
+/* License for more details.                                                  */
+/*                                                                            */
+/* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License   */
+/* along with XRootD in a file called COPYING.LESSER (LGPL license) and file  */
+/* COPYING (GPL license).  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.        */
+/*                                                                            */
+/* The copyright holder's institutional names and contributor's names may not */
+/* be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without  */
+/* specific prior written permission of the institution or contributor.       */
+/******************************************************************************/
+
+#define TRACE_Debug     0x0001
+
+#ifndef NODEBUG
+
+#include "XrdSys/XrdSysTrace.hh"
+
+#define DMSG(x,y) XrdPosixGlobals::Trace.Beg(0, x) <<y; \
+                  XrdPosixGlobals::Trace.End()
+
+#define DEBUGON (XrdPosixGlobals::Trace.What & TRACE_Debug)
+
+#define DEBUG(y) if (XrdPosixGlobals::Trace.What & TRACE_Debug) \
+                    {DMSG(epname,y);}
+
+#define EPNAME(x) static const char *epname = x
+
+namespace XrdPosixGlobals
+{
+extern    XrdSysTrace Trace;
+}
+
+#else
+
+#define DEBUG(y)
+#define EPNAME(x)
+#define DEBUGON false
+
+#endif
+#endif