Comments on Linux strace Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)

The Linux command line offers many tools that are helpful for software developers. One among them is strace. The strace command in Linux lets you trace system calls and signals.

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By: Gray

Fun trick for debugging random crashes which don't provide sufficient logging information to resolve: start your daemon with `strace` and pipe output to `tail -n500` to capture the last 500 lines of `strace` output.

By: Mindmajix

Thanks for the article! Always looking for more options to perform similar Linux strace Command tasks. 

By: Amit

How many processes could be traced with strace in parallel?