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Thanks, this looks useful! (Although dynamic linker based things are faster than ptrace, they require restarting the monitored process to enabled the tracing so they are not very suitable for ad-hoc system monitoring.)
Why trace the kernel?
Posted Jul 30, 2008 22:22 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
That's true. (Particularly true in this case, where quite a bit of the magic is handled at ld.so startup time.)
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