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updated bird (2.0.3 -> 2.0.7)
author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Fri Jan 03 16:08:36 2020 +0100 (2020-01-03)
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1 strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace
2 of all the system calls made by a another process/program. The program to be
3 traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which
4 you don't have source.
6 System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface.
7 A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity
8 checking and attempting to capture race conditions.