Appendix C. Debugging Techniques
This appendix contains some hints and techniques for debugging network applications. No single technique is the answer for everyone; instead, there are various tools that we should be familiar with, and then use whatever works in our environment.
System Call Tracing
Many versions of Unix provide a system call tracing facility. This can often provide a valuable debugging technique.
Working at this level, we need to differentiate between a system call and a function. The former is an entry point into the kernel, and that is what we are able to trace with the tools we will look at in this section. POSIX and most other standards use the term “function” to describe what appears to the user to be functions, even though ...
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