Tracing application loads via the elf loader using ptrace

Load Trace, or 'ldt', was a little program I put together awhile back to trace application loads coming through the elf loader. The sample in this directory provides the following output:
%./ldt testmain  
L ET_EXEC: @0x08048000: testmain
L  ET_DYN: @0x28101000: ./first
L  ET_DYN: @0x28103000: ./second
D  ET_DYN: @0x28103000: ./second
D  ET_DYN: @0x28101000: ./first
process 21723 exited, exit code=0
The above should be self explanatory. The load trace program exec'd testmain which then dynamically loaded the first and second shared images.

Comments about possible improvements are always welcome.

Heavy reading of ptrace(2) , elf(5) and i386_set_watch(3)/i386_clr_watch(3) is recommended.

A tarfile with all the pieces is here.

The parts of ldt are ldt.c , ptrace.c and elfutil.c .