You should watch the video then, as it goes into more details about new strace features introduced in the last few years, like print only system calls with a sp

You should watch the video then, as it goes into more details about new strace features introduced in the last few years, like print only system calls with a specified return status (successful, failed, etc.). I'm particularly intrigued about what I can do with system call tampering. I like the example of being able to make unlink() be a no-op, giving you easy access to a temporary file which is normally automatically cleaned up.