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1 strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace
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2 of all the system calls made by a another process/program. The program to be
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3 traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which
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4 you don't have source.
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6 System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface.
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7 A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity
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8 checking and attempting to capture race conditions.
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