What is the operation of the Strace command?

[Blake Acy]

Operation of Strace command.

[Connor]

The system called “ptrace” is used by strace to force the kernel to stop the program from being tracked each time it enters or exits the kernel. Then, using ptrace, the tracing software (in this case, strace) can examine the status of the program.

[KelvinSmith]

What is a system call in strace?