Re: a question about program compilation and disk io

[Stephane List <stephane.list@fr.alcove.com>]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:27:01PM +0800, Zou Min wrote :
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to ask a question regarding to the number of disk reads
> over a compilation workload in Linux.
> 
> For example, if the workload is "g++ -c xxx.c", except that "g++" program
> and source code "xxx.c" will be loaded into memory, what else will be read 
> from disk?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
Look at strace.

man strace

strace g++ -c xxx.c

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