if you can run the program, i highly recommend searching HN for strace. eg: "whats that program actually doing. start with strace" https://blogs.oracle.com/ksp

if you can run the program, i highly recommend searching HN for strace. eg: "whats that program actually doing. start with strace" https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/strace_the_sysadmin_s_microscope https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/strace_the_sysadmin_s... i've successfully reverse engineered messaging protocols, written drivers for a different language, and ported large projects just by trying to see what it does over the file system, network. ~B