strace and ltrace provide a flood of information about system and library calls being made by Linux processes, and sorting through it all can help discover the cause of problems. Both strace and ...

Debugging and profiling are critical skills in a developer's toolbox, especially when working with low-level system applications. Whether you're tracking down a segmentation fault in a C program or ...

The strace command lets you see what a process is doing, how it is interacting with the operating system. It monitors system calls and signals. As others have pointed out, using strace’s output can be ...

Over at Admin HPC, Intel’s Jeff Layton concludes his series of features on how strace can help you understand the I/O pattern of an application from the application’s perspective. The last lesson I ...

Debuggers are essential tools for software engineers working on Linux, enabling them to identify and fix bugs efficiently. With a wide range of debuggers available, each offers unique features that ...