Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue 2009-01-27 12:08:04, Kok, Auke wrote:
>>> This tracer monitors regular file open() syscalls. This is a fast
>>> and low-overhead alternative to strace, and does not allow or
>>> require to be attached to every process.
>>>
>>> The tracer only logs succesfull calls, as those are the only ones we
>>> are currently interested in, and we can determine the absolute path
>>> of these files as we log.
>> Maybe fanotify() should be used instead?
>>
>> Or maybe just plain strace? One slow boot should not really hurt...
>
> ptrace is out of question for good tracing because it's not a transparent
> probe. (ptrace monopolizes the traced task - if we use that then we break
> regular strace usage.)
>
> Ingo
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??
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