yes.....your answer is "strace" for userspace.....but if inside the
kernel, and u want to identify the name of the process...it is "comm":

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/cred.c

 21 #if 0
 22 #define kdebug(FMT, ...) \
 23         printk("[%-5.5s%5u] "FMT"\n", current->comm, current-
>pid ,##__VA_ARGS__)
 24 #else



On Feb 25, 10:42 am, perumal316 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing an kernel module to log a message each time a particular
> system call is being done.
>
> Is there any way for me to identify which application is using the
> system call?
>
> I want to log which application is performing which system call.I not
> sure if there is some kind of ID to identify which is the current
> application calling the system call.
>
> Thanks In Advance,
> Perumal

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