SOTRUSS(1)

✨ SOTRUSS ✨

okay bestie, welcome to sotruss(1) 💅 — a User Commands page, and honestly? it's giving lowkey magic. sit down, grab a boba, let's get into it 🧋🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

sotruss — trace shared library calls through PLT 🎀

🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

sotruss [OPTION...] [--] EXECUTABLE [EXECUTABLE-OPTION...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so. sotruss is literally just a small wrapper around ld.so — no cap. you hand it an executable, and it runs that executable until it exits, that's the whole job.

but here's the slay: while that process is running, sotruss intercepts the dynamic library calls that the process makes through the Procedure Linkage Table (PLT), and produces a whole trace of them. and it's not doing the bare minimum either — as each call gets executed, it outputs the caller, the calle and the parameters. main character observability fr fr 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -F, --from _FROMLIST_ — trace calls that come from objects on _FROMLIST_ 👀
• -T, --to _TOLIST_ — trace calls that go to objects on _TOLIST_ 💫
• -e, --exit — also show the exits from the function calls. not just the arrivals, bestie, the departures too 🚪✨
• -f, --follow — follow child processes as they get created by the processes you're currently tracing, as a result of the fork(2) system call. it's giving family tree energy 🌳
• -o, --output _FILENAME_ — write output to _FILENAME_ instead of standard error. (or to FILENAME. in case -f is also used 👀 yes, with the dot, that's not a typo, that's the vibe)
• -?, --help — give this help list 🫶
• --usage — give a short usage message ⭐
• --version — print program version 🏷️

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Ulrich Drepper. an icon, honestly 🫡

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 💜

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. read that again bestie, no warranty, we said what we said 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ld.so(8) 🦋

and that's the whole page, no crumbs left 💀✨

okay bye, this was the sotruss manual page, from May 2014, and you can find it chilling in the User Commands section of the manual, filed under SOTRUSS(1) 💖 go trace something, you got this 🫶🎀