Anatol Pomozov wrote: > > What's wrong with strace? In altlinux it was used for ages to find > > build dependencies. > > As of ptrace I believe it has high run-time overhead and it gets > tricky to use it in multi-thread environment. Mike Shal from > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tup-users is better source of > information about it though. Then, from kernel side but not filesystems, system call auditing SystemTap LSM modules like TOMOYO / AKARI / CaitSith etc. > A real-world example where such requirement needed is build-systems - > I run "gcc foo.c" and I want to know what files are dependencies of > this operation. I want to record the information and if any of > dependencies is modified - I rerun "gcc" again. Are you trying to develop something like Makefile generator? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html