Re: strace only one child process


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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?


Hello,

Thanks for your help.

Any child is valid. That means, the first (or one of the firsts, or a
few of them) child after type the "strace" command will be ok.

Kind regards.

.

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