wok-next annotate strace/description.txt @ rev 19532
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| author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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| date | Tue Nov 29 15:32:40 2016 +0200 (2016-11-29) |
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| al@19168 | 1 strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace |
| al@19168 | 2 of all the system calls made by a another process/program. The program to be |
| al@19168 | 3 traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which |
| al@19168 | 4 you don't have source. |
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| al@19168 | 6 System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface. |
| al@19168 | 7 A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity |
| al@19168 | 8 checking and attempting to capture race conditions. |