[ale] How to debug a program that just goes away

[ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim Lynch)]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> Have you used strace to see if it is blocking in a system call?
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Would that cause it to just go away?  It's not that the program stops 
processing, it's that it disappears from the process table. It's as if a 
kill -9 was sent to it.

Thanks,
Jim.