https://github.com/mgedmin/strace-process-tree

Tool to help me make sense out of `strace -f` output.
https://github.com/mgedmin/strace-process-tree

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Tool to help me make sense out of `strace -f` output.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mgedmin/strace-process-tree
• Owner: mgedmin
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2019-08-21T12:05:24.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-12T13:54:39.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-16T16:31:10.582Z (9 days ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://pypi.org/project/strace-process-tree/
• Size: 117 KB
• Stars: 55
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: CHANGES.rst
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
strace-process-tree

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Reads strace -f output and produces a process tree.  Example ::

    $ strace -f -e trace=process -s 1024 -o /tmp/trace.out make binary-package

    ...

    $ strace-process-tree /tmp/trace.out

    25510 make binary-package

      ├─25511 /bin/sh -c 'dpkg-parsechangelog | awk '\''$1 == "Source:" { print $2 }'\'''

      │   ├─25512 dpkg-parsechangelog

      │   │   └─25514 tail -n 40 debian/changelog

      │   └─25513 awk '$1 == "Source:" { print $2 }'

      ├─25515 /bin/sh -c 'dpkg-parsechangelog | awk '\''$1 == "Version:" { print $2 }'\'''

      │   ├─25516 dpkg-parsechangelog

      │   │   └─25518 tail -n 40 debian/changelog

      │   └─25517 awk '$1 == "Version:" { print $2 }'

      ├─25519 /bin/sh -c 'dpkg-parsechangelog | grep ^Date: | cut -d: -f 2- | date --date="$(cat)" +%Y-%m-%d'

      │   ├─25520 dpkg-parsechangelog

      │   │   └─25525 tail -n 40 debian/changelog

      │   ├─25521 grep ^Date:

      │   ├─25522 cut -d: -f 2-

      │   └─25523 date --date=" Thu, 18 Jan 2018 23:39:51 +0200" +%Y-%m-%d

      │       └─25524 cat

      └─25526 /bin/sh -c 'dpkg-parsechangelog | awk '\''$1 == "Distribution:" { print $2 }'\'''

          ├─25527 dpkg-parsechangelog

          │   └─25529 tail -n 40 debian/changelog

          └─25528 awk '$1 == "Distribution:" { print $2 }'

Installation

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Use your favourite pip wrapper to install strace-process-tree, e.g.

    pipx install strace-process-tree

Synopsis

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Usage: strace-process-tree [-h] [--version] [-c] [-C] [-U] [-A] [-v] filename

Read strace -f output and produce a process tree. Recommended strace options

for best results:

  strace -f -ttt -e trace=process -s 1024 -o FILENAME COMMAND

positional arguments:

  filename        strace log to parse (use - to read stdin)

optional arguments:

  -h, --help      show this help message and exit

  --version       show program's version number and exit

  -c, --color     force color output

  -C, --no-color  disable color output

  -U, --unicode   force Unicode output

  -A, --ascii     force ASCII output

  -v, --verbose   more verbose output