Did you see my talk about strace? Do you want to know more? Here's your chance!
If you didn't, and you want to watch it, go watch it! Spying on your programs with strace
- I've written tons of blog posts about strace. I'm a little bit obsessed. You can read them at http://jvns.ca/blog/categories/strace/. If you want an introduction, start with Debug your programs like they're closed source.
- Strace - The Syadmin's Microscope and Strace: The Lost Chapter are both excellent articles by Greg Price
- Brendan Gregg has an excellent article about how strace will slow your processes down, and when it's not appropriate to use it
Windows: no idea
OS X: try dtruss
I made claims about sysdig working. That was not true! sysdig only works on Linux (which isn't surprising: these tools are really system specific). Ooops.
Here's the markdown for the slides.