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| author | Nate Sammons <nate@users.sourceforge.net> | 1999-03-29 22:57:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Nate Sammons <nate@users.sourceforge.net> | 1999-03-29 22:57:54 +0000 |
| commit | ccd8f216267cea2f56567b8a44929475105b8298 (patch) | |
| tree | 1711795b1f4536fc384c566a65c4ec8ea6b7fcc7 /strace.1 | |
| parent | 39c761997d9e1dbef06d29088814e62955eaced1 (diff) | |
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Add capability for Linux to change a vfork call into plain fork, which
can be followed. (Requires a kernel patch for now.) Also document it.
Diffstat (limited to 'strace.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | strace.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -236,9 +236,10 @@ option is in effect, each processes trace is written to where pid is the numeric process id of each process. .TP .B \-F -On SunOS 4.x, this option has the effect of attempting to follow -vforks by performing some dynamic linking trickery. Otherwise, -vforks will not be followed even if +Attempt to follow vforks. (On SunOS 4.x, this is accomplished with +some dynamic linking trickery. On Linux, it requires some kernel +functionality not yet in the standard kernel.) Otherwise, vforks will +not be followed even if .B \-f has been given. .TP |