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How does 'strace' work?
Recently, I was using mv to move a large amount of files from my hard drive to a flash drive. I forgot to add a verbose flag so I had no idea "where" the move was at and how many transfers remained.
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Why do strace/truss sometimes 'fix' stuck processes?
Sometimes you have a stuck process that's been stuck for a while, and as soon as you go to poke at it with strace/truss just to see what's going on, it gets magically unstuck and continues to run! So ...
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