forksnoop ?
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- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 22.7k
- Forks
- 4.1k
- Avg merge
- 10d 4h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 3
Description
Trace new processes via fork() syscalls.
Useful in investigating short lived process.
Similar to https://github.com/ColinIanKing/forkstat
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
Research direction
The issue names no files or tests. Start by comparing the proposed fork() syscall tracing behavior with forkstat and reviewing BCC's existing tracing-tool entry points; done means a BCC tool that reports newly created, short-lived processes.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- observability-sre, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100