man(8)

💅 man(8) — procmon manpage 🦋

ok so real quick, bestie: you're reading the man(8) page for procmon — yes, the whole page is literally named man and it lives in section 8. iconic, confusing, we move. ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

procmon — the syscall tracing diagnostics tool. that's it, that's the vibe. she traces syscalls and she does it well. 💜

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

procmon [OPTIONS...]
      -h                       Prints this help screen
      -p/--pids                Comma separated list of process ids to
monitor
      -e/--events              Comma separated list of system calls to
monitor
      -c/--collect [FILEPATH]  Option to start Procmon in a headless
mode
      -f/--file FILEPATH       Open a Procmon trace file

no cap, that's the whole shape of it — procmon plus some [OPTIONS...] and you're off. the flags are spelled out down in OPTIONS, keep scrolling bestie 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: Procmon is a Linux reimagining of the classic Procmon tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. yes, that Procmon. she got a glow-up and moved to Linux. 💅

the way that it provides a convenient and efficient way for Linux developers to trace the syscall activity on the system — genuinely the main character of your debugging session. no more guessing what your processes are up to, you just see it. 🔥

ngl, tracing syscall activity is exactly the kind of thing that sounds boring until it saves you at 2am. then it's giving saviour. 😭

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -h — prints this help screen. the "help me help you" flag, honestly. 🎀
• -p, --pids — comma separated list of process ids to monitor. give her the pids, she'll watch them for you 👀
• -e, --events — comma separated list of system calls to monitor. comma separated, so don't be shy with the list 🌈
• -c, --collect [FILEPATH] — option to start Procmon in a headless mode. no GUI, just vibes and a [FILEPATH] 🧚
• -f, --file FILEPATH — open a Procmon trace file. load up a trace and relive the whole thing 💀

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and that's the page, bestie — go trace something iconic 👑

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sign-off szn: this gorgeous little page is version 0.1, dated 07/16/2020, and it's served fresh from the procmon manpage. mwah. 💖