strace -f fix

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sat Jun 1 15:38:00 GMT 2002


On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:09:57PM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>I've been playing around with the strace program some more and noticed a
>minor glitch: it's only meant to trace forked children if the -f flag is
>given on the command line. Unfortunately it currently always traces
>children, and the this flag has no effect.
>
>Having read the MS documentation, I fully understand this: the documentation
>of the relevant flag (DEBUG_ONLY_THIS_PROCESS) is at the least utterly
>ambiguous and most likely contradictory.

What are you trying to fix?  AFAICT, the -f option is working correctly.

cgf



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