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From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracer for sys_open() - sreadahead
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Harald Hoyer (harald@redhat.com) said: 
> Can strace can be used on init?
>
> $ man strace
> ...
>        On Linux, exciting as it would be, tracing the init process is forbidden.
> ...
>
> Any hope getting _any_ mechanism in the kernel??

The man page probably needs fixed - this works as of a few kernel releases
ago.

Bill