Strace not showing all system calls

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:31:57AM +0100, Frits Hoogland wrote:
> Hello list, I hope you can help me with an observation I've made with strace on Oracle Linux 6.3 (latest) X64.
> When I strace a process, I only see successful io_getevents() calls, not non-successful io_getevents() calls with a timeout set to 0s.

strace starts to decode io_getevents at the enter of syscall, it prints
first three arguments right away, so it would be too late to decide
whether to print io_getevents or not depending on its return value.

The question is, how do you know there are unsuccessful io_getevents()
calls if strace doesn't show them?


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