Help in Understanding the Strace Code Base.

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:02:42PM +0100, Alangi Derick wrote:
> Hello,
>     I will  really like to understand the Strace code base. Lately i have
> been facing some difficulties on how to work around the code based. So
> please if there are some tutorials that i can work with or if there is some
> where help can come from, then that will be fine.

Well, strace is a regular free software.  It's build system is based on
GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake, xlat/*.h files are generated by bootstrap
script from appropriate xlat/*.in files automatically using xlat/gen.sh
shell script.  Automated tests are in tests/ subdirectory, you can use
"make check" to run them.  The code itself is written in C.  If you are
interested in hairy ptrace-related stuff, consider reading
README-linux-ptrace first.  For better understanding of strace,
I'd recommend browsing internet for various strace use cases.

There are two points where one can easily find a room for improvement.
The first is extensible decoders, e.g. ioctl syscall decoder.
The second is test suite.


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