Here, the second and the third argument of open(2) are decoded by breakin traditional or native usage differs from ANSI or POSIX, the latter forms Structure pointers are dereferenced and the members are displayed as ap mand "ls -l /dev/null" is captured as: lstat("/dev/null", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0666, st_rdev=makedev(0x1, 0x3), Notice how the 'struct stat' argument is dereferenced and how each member and numeric values. Also notice in this example that the first argument the system call fails, arguments may not always be dereferenced. For exa lstat("/foo/bar", 0xb004) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) Manual page strace(1) line 17 (press h for help or q to quit)
