There are times when it’s useful to inspect what a running application is doing under the hood, and what system calls it is performing during its execution. To accomplish such a task on Linux, we can use the strace utility. In this article we will see how to install it and we will learn its basic usage.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-trace-system-calls-made-by-a-process-with-strace-on-linux