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Up: tazbug (2.0) No more gtk gui, new cmdline tools, plugins and better way to handle bugs
author | Christophe Lincoln <pankso@slitaz.org> |
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date | Tue Feb 21 04:43:09 2017 +0100 (2017-02-21) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/strace/description.txt Tue Feb 21 04:43:09 2017 +0100 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.