May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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The ltrace and strace utilities use the ptrace function to rewrite the Procedure Linkage Table (PLT) which maps between dynamic library calls and the actual memory address of the called function. This means that ltrace can trap any dynamically linked function call but not a statically linked function.