Strace in 60 lines of Go

This post is a walk-through of the simple strace implementation I wrote during my GopherCon talk, A Go Programmer’s Guide to Syscalls. You’ll find the code here. To explore some of the features of the Linux ptrace syscall I thought it would be fun to write my own implementation of a basic strace — a tool that shows which syscalls an executable uses. This article is a quick breakdown of how the pro

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