Roland McGrath

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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