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From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracer for sys_open() - sreadahead
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:44:42 +0100
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue 2009-01-27 12:08:04, Kok, Auke wrote:
>>> This tracer monitors regular file open() syscalls. This is a fast
>>> and low-overhead alternative to strace, and does not allow or
>>> require to be attached to every process.
>>>
>>> The tracer only logs succesfull calls, as those are the only ones we
>>> are currently interested in, and we can determine the absolute path
>>> of these files as we log.
>> Maybe fanotify() should be used instead?
>>
>> Or maybe just plain strace? One slow boot should not really hurt...
> 
> ptrace is out of question for good tracing because it's not a transparent 
> probe. (ptrace monopolizes the traced task - if we use that then we break 
> regular strace usage.)
> 
> 	Ingo

Can strace can be used on init?

$ man strace
...
        On Linux, exciting as it would be, tracing the init process is forbidden.
...

Any hope getting _any_ mechanism in the kernel??