Can C be used to capture system calls on a machine?

Good day,

I was wondering if there is a way to do direct system call capture with C or C++?

I know that currently on unix systems you can use SystemTap to do system capture. The problem I'm having is that in order to feed them into another program for analysis I have to pipe them to the other program.

I'd like to pass things along programatically as this is easier than开发者_JS百科 "printing" out into the pipe and then reading in with the other program.

Is there a way of doing this? How difficult would it be?

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strace does exactly that.

You can take a look at its source code to see how its done.