Linux USB + ptrace
Some info
I had a usb-dongle that only was provided with a windows-driver,
which I did not have the source or hardware specs on. But I had the hardware, and needed
it up and runnning for a project I was working on. So, what I did, was to fire up vmware,
attach the small program below, connect vmware to the usb-device and log all traffic.
Nice little program that both shows how usb in userspace works and the ptrace API for
fetching out the kernel-calls (x86 32bit ptrace):
usbtrace.c