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

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:24:42 -0500
Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Arjan van de Ven (arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> > you can strace init but you can't strace X
> > (at least... last I tried it locked my box ;0)
> 
> You should be able to strace X, as long as you're not doing it *from*
> X.
> 
last I tried it b0rked (yeah I'm not stupid enuogh to do that from X,
at least not a second time ;-)

another issue with the "use strace" approach is selinux... 
(this is in addition to the performance and behavioral changes)
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