Write yourself an strace in 70 lines of code

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Basically anyone who’s used Linux for any amount of time eventually comes to know and love the strace command. strace is the system-call tracer, which traces the calls that a program makes into the kernel in order to interact with the outside world. If you’re not already familiar with this incredibly versatile tool, I suggest you go check out my friend and coworker Greg Price’s excellent blog post on the subject, and then come back here.

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