Roland McGrath is a computer programmer.
While working for the GNU Project, he wrote the GNU C Library, co-wrote GNU Make, worked on the Hurd and GNU Mach, and wrote some parts of GNU Emacs.
For a time he worked at the University of Utah's Flux Project.
He currently works for Google. Previously, he worked at Red Hat.
He is the primary author of utrace, a tracing facility for modules in the Linux kernel.
He is the maintainer of strace in Debian.
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