Re: [PATCH] tracer for sys_open() - sreadahead

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Feb 03 2009 - 08:10:18 EST


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...
Pavel

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