So I rewrote the perl program and the C program to write to the same text file

I get something like this in my output.txt:

237 time system call 8
238 time system call 8
239 time system call 5
240 time system call 5
241 time system call 72
242 time system call 72
243 time system call 1
Started #The BEGIN block
244 time system call 1
245 time system call 3
246 time system call 3
247 time system call 2
248 time system call 2
249 time system call 8
250 time system call 8
251 time system call 16
252 time system call 16
253 time system call 8
254 time system call 8
255 time system call 5
256 time system call 5
257 time system call 72
258 time system call 72
259 time system call 1
hello world
260 time system call 1
261 time system call 3
262 time system call 3
....
....
At 400 about I get the END block print
and then 3 more system calls before termination

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Unfortunately I don't know now when I should start monitoring the target problem. I want to write something of a generic tracer for any perl script. I thought I would see a pattern in the perl interpreter's system calls but I don't. Any ideas?

In reply to Re^2: tracing system calls a perl script is making by gideondsouza
in thread tracing system calls a perl script is making by gideondsouza

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