OpenTra...:System(3)

okay bestie, this is OpenTra...:System(3) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — and it's literally about support tracing system calls. no cap, it's giving useful. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

OpenTracing::Integration::System — support tracing system calls. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so to create a trace each time system is called, you do this:

use OpenTracing::Any qw($tracer);
use OpenTracing::Integration qw(System);
system("ls");

Additionally, this modules supports span context propagation using the OPENTRACING_CONTEXT environment variable. Any call to system will fill the environment variable OPENTRACING_CONTEXT=<traceid>:<id> in order to propagate down the context to other programs. 🌀

Of course, this requires that the child process implements extracting the span from that variable. Luckily, this perl module can do that for you using:

use OpenTracing::Any qw($tracer);
use OpenTracing::Integration qw(System);

my $span_context = OpenTracing::Integration::System->extract_context();
my $span;
if ($span_context)
{
  $span = $tracer->span(operation_name => 'main', references => [$tracer->child_of($span_context)]);
}
else
{
  $span = $tracer->span(operation_name => 'main');
}

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

See OpenTracing::Integration for more details. that's the whole tea. 🫶

💖 AUTHOR 💖

Francis Tremblay "francis.tremblay@unity3d.com" — iconic. 💌

🎀 LICENSE 🎀

Copyright Unity 2021. Licensed under the same terms as Perl itself. 👑

💖 cute sign-off: this page is from perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15 — periodt. 🫶✨