CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101 (Linux.com)

CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101 (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 21, 2007 13:35 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101 (Linux.com) by aisotton
Parent article: CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101 (Linux.com)

Unfortunately ltrace doesn't have nearly as much smarts as strace in decoding arguments. In fairness the problem space is HUGE by comparison, so I'm not sure you can realistically expect it, but I find I often can't really make heads or tails of an ltrace, while an strace is often quite straighforward.

The issue being all the interfaces that take pointers. strace typically shows you the struct entries, ltrace typically shows you the location and that's it.

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