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Get started with strace and debug faster

BUG BUMPER

Author(s): JULIET KEMP

Get started with strace by examining a pair of “Hello World” programs. Next month, in the second part of this two-part series, I’ll take a deeper look at strace output.

Strace is a useful little program – installed by default on most Linux systems – that allows you to take a look at the system calls used by an application. Don’t be misled by the name: strace doesn’t provide a stack trace – it just reports on system calls.


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