# So what is this application really doing? - debugging with strace(8)

- Institution: CERN
- Department: IT Lightning Talks (ITLT)
- Speaker: Marek Kamil DENIS
- Year: 2015
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3019771)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Have you ever wondered what your program does under the covers? When does it open network sockets, which configuration files reads or... why suddenly stops responding? In this talk we will refresh some OS knowledge and learn how to eavesdrop syscalls with standard Linux tools..

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## Lectures

1. [So what is this application really doing? - debugging with strace(8)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3019771/e83be70d9756), 7 min (CERN's player)