I had a long-running process and I wanted to check that it was at least doing something. I know its PID (32425 in this case) - here's how to use strace to see what it's doing right now. This command ...

Debugging and profiling are critical skills in a developer's toolbox, especially when working with low-level system applications. Whether you're tracking down a segmentation fault in a C program or ...

Both strace and ltrace are powerful command-line tools for debugging and troubleshooting programs on Linux: Strace captures and records all system calls made by a process as well as the signals ...

There are a few strace -k test failures when building strace 6.9 with libdw on aarch64 systems with pointer authentication on. This is similar but different to #12, which was about tests failing when ...

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I’ve recently come across strace, a debugging utility for Linux that “monitor the system calls used by a program and all the signals”. It may not be that useful if you have the source code and can run ...