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Re: RFC: Strace mask mnemonics / ORing
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:36:51PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:27:13AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>> Would the addition of mnemonic support and/or ORing in the message filter
>> mask of strace be useful to people? I'm thinking along the lines of:
>>
>> strace -m syscall+malloc+thread ....
>>
>> I could see this being useful for setting up aliases etc and not having to
>> worry if you got the hex looked up and ORed correctly; but I'm sure there
>> are a lot heavier users of strace than me here, so I figured I'd ask if this
>> was a solution looking for a problem or if it would actually be worthwhile.
>
>Sounds good, IMO. Perhaps together with a nice --help output...
And, a comma separated list, please...
cgf