It’s quite common when diagnosing an issue in an application to come across an unexpected value in a variable or data structure, and to wonder: “How did that value get there?”
Debuggers can call functions in your programs directly and tell you what they returned — how does this…
How Undo uses time travel debugging as part of the CI (Continuous Integration) test and…
ptrace
ptrace is the API usually used on Unix-like systems to implement process tracing functionality. Usually that’s debuggers — e.g. GDB, UDB, etc. It can also be used where some other type of process needs to monitor / record another — e.g. strace, LiveRecorder…
strace
Debugging is central to programming. You cannot be a good programmer without being good at…
