Re: strace only one child process

On 22 Oct 2006 04:23:48 -0700 tmp123 <tmp123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|> On 21 Oct 2006 03:35:52 -0700 tmp123 <tmp123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>
|> | About modify "strace", it is a posibility. I should evaluate the
|> | necessary effort. The idea will be add to the "-f" option an optional
|> | numerical argument: maximum number of childs to follow.
|>
|> I would suggest integrating it with the -e option, allowing _any_ kind
|> of specifiable event to be counted to determine when to stop tracing
|> that event or to stop strace altogether. Then while you would be using
|> it to count a maximum of fork() calls, someone else might find value in
|> stopping tracing after some number of open() calls.
|>
|
|
| Yes, is true. A program like "truss" allows 3 lists of independent
| events: the ones to trace, the ones to start the trace and the ones to
| end it.
|
| I'm wondering why "strace" does not have it.

Each programmer can look in the mirror and see the answer. I am as guilty
as you or anyone else for having not added that feature.

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