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strace - Tracks and displays system calls associated with a running process

Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/
License: BSD
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Description:
The strace program intercepts and records the system calls called and
received by a running process.  Strace can print a record of each
system call, its arguments and its return value.  Strace is useful for
diagnosing problems and debugging, as well as for instructional
purposes.

Install strace if you need a tool to track the system calls made and
received by a process.

Packages

strace-4.5.18-5.el5.i386 [170 KiB] Changelog by Denys Vlasenko (2009-06-19):
- Remove unneeded changes on QE request
- Note: still includes fixes for these bugs:
- Resolves: RHBZ #471169 (incorrent formatting of fcntl64() on32/64 system)
- Resolves: RHBZ #472053 (SIGKILL might be improperly traced)
- Resolves: RHBZ #478419 (Improve fairness)

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