Package: strace (4.5.20-2)

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A system call tracer

strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program. The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which you don't have source.

System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions.

Tags: Software Development: Debugging, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Purpose: Monitoring, Works with: Running Programs

Other Packages Related to strace

• dep: libc6 (>= 2.3) [amd64, i386, mips, mipsel]

  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

  dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [armel, powerpc, s390]

  dep: libc6 (>= 2.6) [sparc]

• dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3) [ia64]

  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb

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Architecture	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
amd64	136.4 kB	396.0 kB	[list of files]
armel	121.3 kB	312.0 kB	[list of files]
i386	118.7 kB	296.0 kB	[list of files]
ia64	166.9 kB	624.0 kB	[list of files]
mips	157.4 kB	552.0 kB	[list of files]
mipsel	149.4 kB	552.0 kB	[list of files]
powerpc	123.0 kB	320.0 kB	[list of files]
s390	124.0 kB	300.0 kB	[list of files]
sparc	121.5 kB	312.0 kB	[list of files]