> strace -o /tmp/less.strace /usr/bin/less strace has obnoxious bugs, and the maintainer(s) have been slow to fix it, or to make it useful in pipelines and shell scripts. strace may lag behind the addition of new system calls in the kernel. Applying strace can change the *semantics* of the executable, in ways that have mattered to me. Sometimes the bug was fixed quickly: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354261 Lockup on wait on exited child with exited child but sometimes the bugs linger unfixed for years: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=162774 strace ignores int3 SIGTRAP [open for 3 years] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105371 RFE: add support to keep exit status of traced processes [open almost 5 years] -- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
