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Announcing a new utility: 'trace'

Announcing a new utility: 'trace'

Posted Nov 17, 2010 15:22 UTC (Wed) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)
In reply to: Announcing a new utility: 'trace' by mingo
Parent article: Announcing a new utility: 'trace'

I use strace to debug one of my Perl par build processes. The PAR archive support included in the Perl Catalyst web framework's make has a nasty habit of shutting down stderr somewhere in the chain, and so build failures often result in a generic make error.

In those cases I pass -f, -s 50000 and -e trace=read,write and I can see what went wrong.


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