[PATCH v5 1/3] Introduce -l/--syscall-limit option

Sahil Siddiq icegambit91 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 31 06:44:13 UTC 2023


Hi,

On Friday, 31 March 2023 03:17:40 IST Kossi GLOKPOR wrote:
> Hi,
> What do you think about using the --daemonize options ? For example
> with --daemonize=grandchild, the shell will be the parent of the
> tracee, and detaching & stopping strace will have no incidence on it.
> When we set an auto stop condition, we assume that strace can have to
> stop while the tracee is still running, and enabling tracer
> daemonization seems like a good way to prevent any issues with the
> tracee when strace stops.
> 
> Regards,
> Kossi

Thank you for the suggestion. I have tested this out and it gives the results
that I was looking for. We could let "--syscall-limit" be enabled only when using
it with the -D or -p options and disable it otherwise.

I'll send in a new patch with this implemention.

Regards,
Sahil




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