How to track child process using strace?
strace -f
to trace child process that's fork()
ed.
There is a perl script called strace-graph
. Here is a version from github. It is packaged with crosstool-ng versions of compilers. It works for me even used cross platform.
ARM Linux box.
$ ./strace -f -q -s 100 -o app.trc -p 449
$ tftp -pr app.trc 172.0.0.133
X86_64 Linux box.
$ ./strace-graph /srv/tftp/app.trc
(anon)
+-- touch /tmp/ppp.sleep
+-- killall -HUP pppd
+-- amixer set Speaker 70%
+-- amixer set Speaker 70%
+-- amixer set Speaker 70%
+-- amixer set Speaker 70%
+-- amixer set Speaker 50%
+-- amixer set Speaker 70%
`-- amixer set Speaker 50%
The output can be used to help navigate the main trace log.
I can't see an easy way:
You could use the -ff
option with -o filename
to produce multiple files (one per pid).
eg:
strace -o process_dump -ff ./executable
grep clone process_dump*
that would help you see which parent created what. Maybe that would help you - at least then you could search backwards.