Top "Strace" questions

How should strace be used?

A colleague once told me that the last option when everything has failed to debug on Linux was to use …

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Systrace for Windows

I'm looking for a Windows equivalent of Systrace or at least strace. I'm aware of StraceNT, but wondering if there …

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How to track child process using strace?

I used strace to attach to a process briefly. The process created 90 threads. When I found the offending thread, I …

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How to solve "ptrace operation not permitted" when trying to attach GDB to a process?

I'm trying to attach a program with gdb but it returns: Attaching to process 29139 Could not attach to process. If …

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How to trace system calls of a program in Mac OS X?

I wanted to trace the system calls made by the find command to debug some performance issues however I could …

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How does strace connect to an already running process?

I do know that strace uses ptrace to do the job, but it needs to run the target process with …

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Equivalent of strace -feopen < command > on mac os X

This is useful for debugging (hence programming related). On linux, we can use the command strace -feopen python myfile.py …

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Prevent strace from abbreviating arguments?

I'm trying to use strace to find out what commands a program executes using execve. Some of the arguments in …

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What is the difference between FUTEX_WAIT and FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE?

I have been tracing a process with strace and have seen entries such as: futex(0x7ffff79b3e00, FUTEX_…

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Stracing to attach to a multi-threaded process

If I want to strace a multi-threaded process (of all of its threads), how should I do it? I know …

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