Re: strace only one child process

On 20 Oct 2006 01:10:40 -0700 tmp123 <tmp123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| In the sytem I'm working, one server process creates one child process
| for each client request. I like to strace one of these child process.
| strace without specific options only traces the parent, and with the
| "-f" option traces all childs, overloading the system.
|
| Knows someone any trick to trace only one (or a few ones) childs?

How do you know which child you want to trace? What is your means to
identify which to trace and which not to trace?

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