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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tracer for sys_open() - sreadahead
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:07:05 -0500
Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:

> Harald Hoyer (harald@redhat.com) said:
> > Can strace can be used on init?
> >
> > $ man strace
> > ...
> > On Linux, exciting as it would be, tracing the init process
> > is forbidden. ...
> >
> > Any hope getting _any_ mechanism in the kernel??
>
> The man page probably needs fixed - this works as of a few kernel
> releases ago.
>

you can strace init but you can't strace X
(at least... last I tried it locked my box ;0)


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