Howdy Evan,

  No worries.  You're looking for strace.

    http://linux.die.net/man/1/strace

  Happy hacking,
    ~Gary



Evan Robert Flynn writes:
 > Hello CSSAers,
 > 
 > So here's what I want to do.  I want to write a program in C that  
 > makes some calls to the C library.  Then when I run it, I will get to  
 > read a log of the call stack of system calls it made.  (A system call  
 > is a function that runs in kernel mode that a user mode program can  
 > access through a system call interface.)
 > 
 > I've read that Dtrace can do this, but AFAIK it only works on Solaris.  
 >   Do you know about a Linux equivalent, and has anyone tried it?   
 > Maybe Gary knows? :) :)
 > 
 > /e