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From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracer for sys_open() - sreadahead
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Arjan van de Ven (arjan@infradead.org) said: 
> you can strace init but you can't strace X
> (at least... last I tried it locked my box ;0)

You should be able to strace X, as long as you're not doing it *from* X.

Bill