Re: strace only one child process

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?

Attach to the desired child after it has been created.
See the documentation for "strace -p <pid>".

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