SOFDSNOOP(8)

📦 version 0.36.1, in centos-stream 10, centos-stream 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

🎀 SOFDSNOOP(8) 🎀

System Manager's Manual 💅

✨ NAME ✨

okay so sofdsnoop is the tool that traces FDs passed by sockets 🦋 (FD = file descriptors, bestie, the little handles your process hands around 🧚)

💌 SYNOPSIS 💌

usage: sofdsnoop [-h] [-T] [-p PID] [-t TID] [-n NAME] [-d DURATION]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Literally just traces file descriptors that get passed through a socket 😭 it's giving surveillance but make it systems programming 🫶

✨ optional arguments: ✨

  • -h, --help — shows the help message and then bounces 👋
  • -T, --timestamp — slaps a timestamp onto every line of output ⏰
  • -p PID, --pid PID — only trace this PID, nobody else gets the spotlight 🔦
  • -t TID, --tid TID — only trace this TID, one thread main character 🧵
  • -n NAME, --name NAME — only print process names that contain this name, so you can ignore the chaos 💜
  • -d DURATION, --duration DURATION — how long the trace runs in total, in seconds ⏳

💖 EXAMPLES 💖

Trace passed file descriptors 🍓

# sofdsnoop

Include timestamps ⏰

# sofdsnoop -T

Only trace PID 181 🎯

# sofdsnoop -p 181

Only trace TID 123 🧵

# sofdsnoop -t 123

Trace for 10 seconds only ⏳

# sofdsnoop -d 10

Only print process names containing "main" 👑

# sofdsnoop -n main

🦋 SOURCE 🦋

This one comes from bcc, ngl the good stuff 🔥

https://github.com/iovisor/bcc

Also go poke around the bcc distribution for a companion _examples.txt file with example usage, output, and commentary for this tool 🧚 it's lowkey the best part 🙈

🌈 OS 🌈

Linux 🐧

💀 STABILITY 💀

Unstable - in development. Bestie, this is still cooking, so don't be shocked if it changes on you 🙈

Manual page from USER COMMANDS, dated 2019-07-29, rewritten with love just for you 💜🫶✨

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