wok annotate strace/description.txt @ rev 25556
created recipes for nted and nted-lang
| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Sat Apr 22 14:54:15 2023 +0100 (14 months ago) |
| parents | a6f7b6b890c2 |
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| Hans-G?nter@25332 | 1 Strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which |
| Hans-G?nter@25332 | 2 prints out a trace of all the system calls made by a another |
| Hans-G?nter@25332 | 3 process or program. |
| Hans-G?nter@25332 | 4 The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so |
| Hans-G?nter@25332 | 5 you can use it on binaries for which you don't have source. |
| al@19168 | 6 |
| Hans-G?nter@25332 | 7 System calls and signals are events that happen at the user |
| Hans-G?nter@25332 | 8 or kernel interface. |
| Hans-G?nter@25332 | 9 A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug |
| Hans-G?nter@25332 | 10 isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race |
| Hans-G?nter@25332 | 11 conditions. |