GNU/Linux host name resolution| www.gabriel.urdhr.fr
I discovered strace somewhere between my first part time web development part time job in 2005 and my first full time “software engineering” job in 2008, and it seemed like a superpower giving me x-ray vision into running infrastructure. When a process was stuck, or existing after a cryptic error message, instead of grepping around I could get a pretty good timeline of what the process was up to. It has some fatal flaws, the ptrace based technology can cause performance issues so it’s m...| Words from Shane