Having your way with strace | Linux Today

Having your way with strace

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Sandra Henry-Stocker
Oct 15, 2013

Ever need to look into a Unix process to see exactly what it’s doing? The ps and top commands only give you a bird’s eye view of what’s going on. But strace will let you peer into a process’ inner workings.

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Sandra Henry-Stocker

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