Re: strace only one child process

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:19:49 -0700 John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
|
| Attach to the desired child after it has been created.
| See the documentation for "strace -p <pid>".

He might be wanting to see what the child does with the incoming connection
right when it forks. The child may only live long enough to do something
and then exit. I have a daemon that, upon TCP connection, spits out a file
to whatever connects, then exits. If it's a short file, the child is gone
in quite a hurry.

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