[Gambas-user] Linux files question and very of gambas topic

[Benoit Minisini]

On Saturday 13 March 2004 09:50, ron wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to find out to log and see witch files/directories
> are requested by a program?
> I think something like FileMon under windows.
> This is handy to find out where the files are expected to be
> and are existing or not.
> This is done in realtime so you can track these errors.
>
> i.e. A program wants a myprogram.png file and it does not exist.
> The KDE controlcenter want some icons I do not have so the are visual
> missing. I assume the program is opening the file and get a error.
> If I can log/see this file request I can maybe use an appropriate icon.
>
> If it can be done with a already existing program what is the name of it?
>

You can try this, for example, to catch all files opened by the IDE.

$ cd ~/gambas/app/gambas
$ strace gbx 2&> strace.out
$ cat strace.out | grep "open("

With a better use of grep, you can be more accurate.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini
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