[ANN] strace_me 1.0 Released

[Eric Hodel]

http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/strace_me

A wrapper around strace(1) that allows you to perform targetted tracing of a
block. strace_me allows you to track down problems without wading through
gobs of ruby startup or other irrelevant noise.

 

[Eric Wong]

http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/strace_me

A wrapper around strace(1) that allows you to perform targetted tracing of a
block. strace_me allows you to track down problems without wading through
gobs of ruby startup or other irrelevant noise.

Other than debugging, this could be a great tool for people to learn
Unix systems programming with.

My learning process has always been somewhat odd, but it is usually some
variant of:

1. strace programs I find interesting
2. read manpages for syscalls I don't recognize in strace output
3. read source code for whatever I straced

Over time I do 2) less and less since the list of syscalls is
fairly small.

Maybe this technique for learning will work for someone else, too.