Go Systems Programming

Using the strace(1) command-line utility

The strace(1) command-line utility allows you to trace system calls and signals. As strace(1) is not available on Mac machines, this section will use a Linux machine to showcase strace(1). However, as you will see in a later, macOS machines have the dtrace(1) command-line utility that can do many more things.

The number after the name of a program refers to the section of the manual its page belongs to. Although most of the names can be found only once, which means that putting the section number is not necessary, there are names that can be located in multiple sections because they have multiple meanings, such as crontab(1) and crontab(5). Therefore, if you try to retrieve such a page without specifically ...