Re: Counting System Calls

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:21:54 -0700


Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:23:36 -0700
From: Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@ISI.EDU>

>A bit radical, but why not make /sbin/init a shell script which does
>strace -f -o /tmp/sclog -c -S calls /sbin/init.real

Three reasons: Performance, performance, and performance! By
the way, is tracing inherited by child processes?

I didn't say it would be fast ;-) And yes, when you specify "-f" all
children and further sub-children trace as well.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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