Re: ANN: syscalltrack 0.80 "Tanned Otter" released

Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:19:47 +0100


Hi!

> criteria. syscalltrack can operate either in "tweezers mode", where
> only very specific operations are tracked, such as "only track and log
> attempts to delete /etc/passwd", or in strace(1) compatible mode,
> where all of the supported system calls are traced. syscalltrack can
> do things that are impossible to do with the ptrace mechanism, because
> its core operates in kernel space.

What stuff can you do that ptrace can't?

As UML and subterfugue.sf.net shows there's
a *lot* you can do with ptrace.

-- 
				Pavel
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