This article explains how to create a user‑defined read() function in C that coexists with the standard library read() by using the static keyword and separate translation units, providing code examples, compilation steps, and execution results.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Linux ptrace system call, explaining its role in process debugging, detailing request parameters, demonstrating practical C examples for tracing system calls, single‑stepping, setting breakpoints, and exploring how DWARF debugging information links source code to executable addresses.
This article walks through a real‑world Linux kernel bug investigation, showing how to detect a frozen process, use tools like ps, strace, pstack, and the /proc filesystem to trace system calls, identify the blocking kernel function, and pinpoint the root cause.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to locate a Linux process frozen in uninterruptible sleep by using tools such as top, ps, WCHAN, /proc files, strace, pstack, and kernel stack traces to pinpoint the offending system call and its root cause.
