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A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool

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166 points LelouBil | 2 comments | 31 Aug 25 22:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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perching_aix ◴[01 Sep 25 00:56 UTC] No.45088446[source]▶
If this works remotely as well as the Windows version, I'm stoked. Polling for information (like with lsof) really rubs me the wrong way.
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calvinmorrison ◴[01 Sep 25 01:02 UTC] No.45088480[source]▶
really? i have to use procman and associated utilities often and they really pale in comparison with linux and even moreso other unix utils (like dtrace)
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1. perching_aix ◴[01 Sep 25 02:00 UTC] No.45088759[source]▶
Care to expand on that? I'm similarly just forced to use Linux and its tooling ecosystem, so decent chances I'm simply missing what's cool/cooler.
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2. calvinmorrison ◴[01 Sep 25 15:55 UTC] No.45093773[source]▶
yes. I work with ancient and opaque tools that dont have good debugging / reporting facilities. Often we have to jump into procmon or whatever see why the heck the thing is stuck. something like strace is native and everywhere and you can sus out easily - hey this proc is trying to open this thing over and over.

procmon is cool, but i have found it limited when the program isnt doing anything 'obvious', and also that i have to download it and run it from the web is a problem when debugging on client systems.