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# strace
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2024-01-05 18:09:15 +01:00
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Strace is a system call trace, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program.
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The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which you don't have source.
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System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface.
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A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions.
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