It lets you see what a program is doing, where doing means any “effects” of the program that touch the system. Want to see whatS happening to files? You can str

It lets you see what a program is doing, where doing means any “effects” of the program that touch the system. Want to see whatS happening to files? You can strace for certain operations to certain files. Weird shitting the bed involving IO? Strace will illuminate the problem