Inserting arbitrary messages into strace output

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 04:52:22PM -0500, Justin Dearing wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> 
> > Unlike -42, which is treated as unsigned int (i.e. 2^32-42) by the kernel,
> > -1 is never a valid file descriptor.
> >
> Ok that makes sense. So how about a command line switch that specifically
> intercepts write (-1, msg)  and print out the entire contents of msg,
> regardless of the formatting of the rest of the output?

strace already supports output filtering via -o| option which is
capable of much more sophisticated filtering than transforming
write(-1) lines.


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