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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Mon Oct 16 10:16:55 2017 +0200 (2017-10-16) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/strace/description.txt Mon Oct 16 10:16:55 2017 +0200 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ 1.4 +strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace 1.5 +of all the system calls made by a another process/program. The program to be 1.6 +traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which 1.7 +you don't have source. 1.8 + 1.9 +System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface. 1.10 +A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity 1.11 +checking and attempting to capture race conditions.