strace "all" mask is not all

strace "all" mask is not all

[Steven Penny]

Apologies if I am doing something wrong, but it appears that the "all" mnemonic
for strace doesnt actually perform as advertised. At a minimum, it appears it
is missing "malloc":

    $ strace -m all true | wc -l
    223

    $ strace -m all,malloc true | wc -l
    306

I could understand if this might be intentional, maybe "malloc" adds a lot of
noise. but if that is the case i feel that "all" should be renamed to "default"
or similar, with an explanation of what "default" actually is. then perhaps a
true "all" could be added as well.

cheers


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Re: strace "all" mask is not all

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Aug 26 06:56, Steven Penny wrote:
> Apologies if I am doing something wrong, but it appears that the "all" mnemonic
> for strace doesnt actually perform as advertised. At a minimum, it appears it
> is missing "malloc":
> 
>    $ strace -m all true | wc -l
>    223
> 
>    $ strace -m all,malloc true | wc -l
>    306
> 
> I could understand if this might be intentional, maybe "malloc" adds a lot of
> noise. but if that is the case i feel that "all" should be renamed to "default"
> or similar, with an explanation of what "default" actually is. then perhaps a
> true "all" could be added as well.

https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PGA ?


Corinna

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