Write a toy strace and gdb

[FiloSottile]

http://hondu.co/blog/write-a-strace-and-gdb

[jdamato]

Thanks for this!

I recently wrote a deep dive in to both strace [1] and Linux system calls [2] which may be interesting to folks reading this great article.

[1]: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/02/29/how-does-strace-...

[2]: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/04/05/the-definitive-g...

[scrame → jdamato]

I'm just partway through the syscalls post, but these are really well done! you've got a knack for technical explanations.

[javierhonduco → jdamato]

Glad you liked it! I didn't know about those two blog posts, they are gold! Thanks a lot :)

[solarengineer]

You may also want to see how Paul Fox is implementing Dtrace for Linux [0]

[0] https://github.com/dtrace4linux/linux

[wyldfire]

python-ptrace [1] is a good place to start if you're playing around.

[1] http://python-ptrace.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[p4bl0]

Awesome introductory example of `ptrace`. Thanks for sharing.