1 Noteworthy changes in release ?.?? (????-??-??)
2 ===============================================
4 Noteworthy changes in release 4.15 (2016-12-14)
5 ===============================================
8 * Time stamps are now printed according to ISO 8601.
9 * Changed output format of val3 parameter of futex FUTEX_WAKE_OP operation.
10 * The last argument of mincore, sched_getaffinity, and sched_setaffinity
11 syscalls is now formatted as an array.
14 * Implemented syscall fault injection (-e fault=... option).
15 * Implemented decoding of DM_* ioctl commands.
16 * Implemented decoding of attr parameter of perf_event_open syscall.
17 * Implemented decoding of pkey_alloc, pkey_free, and pkey_mprotect syscalls.
18 * Implemented dumping of mq_timedsend and mq_timedreceive syscalls.
19 * Implemented decoding of PR_SET_FP_MODE and PR_GET_FP_MODE operations
21 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on m68k.
22 * Updated lists of ARCH_*, BPF_*, BTRFS_*, FALLOC_*, MS_*, *_MAGIC,
24 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.9.
25 * Added decoding of recently added syscalls on arc, x32, and xtensa.
26 * Enhanced manual page.
29 * Fixed corner cases in decoding of exit, exit_group, futimesat, getgroups,
30 getresuid, init_module, inotify_init1, kcmp, kexec_load, lookup_dcookie,
31 mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_open, mq_timedreceive, mq_timedsend,
32 name_to_handle_at, prctl, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, setfsuid,
33 setgroups, setns, unshare, and utimes syscalls.
34 * Fixed handling of verbose flag in printing of controls array
35 of struct v4l2_ext_controls.
36 * Fixed omission of field names in the output of capability, sigaction,
37 sigevent, statfs, timespec, timeval, and utimbuf structures.
38 * Fixed printing of unknown syscalls in siginfo structure.
39 * Fixed decoding of ioctl constants on m68k.
40 * Fixed cris architecture support.
41 * Fixed cross build when host compiler does not support the same
42 set of warning flags as the cross compiler.
43 * Fixed build on SLE10 and SLE11.
45 Noteworthy changes in release 4.14 (2016-10-04)
46 ===============================================
49 * When using -p option without a command and no processes has been attached,
50 strace exits with exit status 1.
53 * Added printing of the mode argument of open and openat syscalls
54 when O_TMPFILE flag is set. (Addresses Fedora bug #1377846).
55 * Enhanced -e abbrev=set, -e raw=set, and -e verbose=set.
56 * Enhanced decoding of futex, keyctl, quotactl, timerfd_settime,
57 and aio family syscalls.
58 * Implemented fetching of the 7th subcall argument on mips o32.
59 * Updated lists of BPF_*, ETH_P_*, KEXEC_ARCH_*, SCTP_*, TCP_*, and *_MAGIC
61 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.8.
62 * Added decoding of new syscalls on sh and sh64.
63 * Added RISC-V architecture support.
66 * Marked io_setup and io_destroy as memory mapping related syscalls.
67 * Fixed leakage of placeholder descriptors to tracees.
68 * Fixed printing of mode_t, umode_t, and umask types.
69 * Fixed decoding of iovec arrays without a limit on total data size.
70 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, futex, keyctl, quotactl, readahead,
71 and ipc family syscalls.
72 * Fixed decoding of invalid syscalls mapped to indirect subcalls.
73 * Fixed decoding of struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args_v2 on non-native
75 * Fixed decoding of PTRACE_DETACH on sparc and sparc64.
76 * Fixed decoding of struct stat64 on sparc64.
77 * Fixed decoding of uid and gid-related syscalls on sparc64.
78 * Fixed decoding of the forth argument of semctl syscall on sparc64.
79 * Fixed values of tty ioctl constants on sparc64.
80 * Fixed sparc personality support on sparc64.
82 Noteworthy changes in release 4.13 (2016-07-26)
83 ===============================================
86 * Implemented a general netlink socket parser.
87 * Enhanced decoding of socket addresses.
88 * Enhanced decoding of cmsghdr, msghdr, and mmsghdr structures.
89 * Enhanced decoding of accept, accept4, bind, getpeername, getsockname,
90 ipc, recvfrom, recvmsg, recvmmsg, sendto, sendmmsg, and socketcall syscalls.
91 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, KEY_*, KEYCTL_*, RWF_*, SS_*,
92 and *_MAGIC constants.
93 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.7.
96 * Fixed decoding of pid_t argument of prlimit64 syscall.
97 * Fixed sign extension issues in the parser of struct rusage.
98 * Fixed race condition in decoding of timeout argument of recvmmsg and
99 rt_sigtimedwait syscalls.
100 * Fixed build with fresh linux kernel headers.
102 Noteworthy changes in release 4.12 (2016-05-31)
103 ===============================================
106 * Implemented simultaneous use of -p option and tracing of a command.
107 (addresses Debian bug #549942).
108 * Implemented caching of netlink conversations to reduce amount of time
109 spent in decoding socket details in -yy mode.
110 * Implemented -yy mode decoding of protocol:portid pairs associated with
111 netlink socket descriptors.
112 * Implemented decoding of copy_file_range, preadv2, and pwritev2 syscalls.
113 * Implemented dumping of preadv, preadv2, pwritev, pwritev2, and vmsplice
115 * Implemented decoding of BTRFS_* and UFFDIO_* ioctl commands.
116 * Enhanced decoding of BLK*, EVIOC*, RTC_*, and VIDIOC_* ioctl commands.
117 * Enhanced decoding of fstatfs, fstatfs64, get_mempolicy, getdents,
118 getdents64, getgroups, getpriority, kill, mbind, migrate_pages, mknod,
119 mknodat, personality, poll, ppoll, quotactl, rt_sigpending,
120 rt_sigqueueinfo, rt_sigtimedwait, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sched_getaffinity,
121 sched_setaffinity, seccomp, set_mempolicy, setgroups, setpriority, statfs,
122 statfs64, tgkill, waitid, and xattr family syscalls.
123 * Enhanced decoding of getxpid, getxuid, and getxgid syscalls on alpha.
124 * Enhanced decoding of pipe syscall on alpha, ia64, mips, sh, and sparc.
125 * Added decoding of bind, listen, and setsockopt direct syscalls on sparc.
126 * Added decoding of osf_statfs64 and osf_fstatfs64 syscalls on alpha.
127 * Added decoding of fadvise64 and fadvise64_64 on s390.
128 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, CLONE_*, EPOLL*, IPV6_*, MADV_*,
129 MSG_*, PTRACE_*, SEGV_*, SO_*, SOL_*, *_MAGIC, and quotactl constants.
130 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.6.
133 * Fixed build on arc, metag, nios2, or1k, and tile architectures.
134 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit times syscall return value on 64-bit architectures.
135 * Fixed decoding of mlock2 syscall on sparc.
136 * Fixed decoding of osf_shmat syscall on alpha.
137 * Fixed decoding of syscalls unknown to the kernel on s390/s390x.
138 (addresses Debian bug #485979 and Fedora bug #1298294).
139 * Fixed decoding of preadv syscall in case of short read.
140 * Fixed decoding and dumping of readv syscall in case of short read.
141 * Fixed dumping of recvmsg and recvmmsg syscalls in case of short read.
142 * Fixed decoding of mincore syscall's last argument.
143 * Fixed remaining errors in mapping between syscall numbers and numbers
144 of syscall arguments.
145 * Applied various fixes to strace-graph script.
147 Noteworthy changes in release 4.11 (2015-12-21)
148 ===============================================
150 * Changes in behavior
151 * Some syscalls have different names depending on architecture and
152 personality. In these cases, syscall filtering and printing now
153 consistently uses the names that match corresponding __NR_* kernel
154 macros of the tracee's architecture and personality.
155 * Added strace prefix to all diagnostic messages.
158 * Enhanced and extended test suite.
159 * Implemented reliable tracing of processes whose personality differs
160 from the personality of strace, fixed decoding of 32-bit personality
161 syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
162 * When some data referenced by syscall arguments is irrelevant or cannot
163 be read from tracee's memory, strace now prints its address consistently.
164 * When a syscall is restarted using restart_syscall mechanism, strace now
165 shows the syscall name on architectures that expose this information.
166 * Print values returned by epoll_create1, eventfd, eventfd2, fanotify_init,
167 inotify_init1, perf_event_open, pipe, pipe2, signalfd, signalfd4, socket,
168 socketpair, timerfd, and timerfd_create syscalls, as well as F_DUPFD and
169 F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC fcntl commands, as file descriptors.
170 * Optimized decoding of indirect socket syscalls.
171 * Implemented decoding of nanoseconds along with seconds in stat family
172 syscalls (addresses Fedora bug #1251176).
173 * Implemented decoding of struct statfs.f_flags in statfs syscall.
174 * Implemented decoding of siginfo_t.si_syscall and siginfo_t.si_arch
176 * Implemented decoding of indirect syscall on mips o32.
177 * Implemented decoding of IPPROTO_IP control messages.
178 * Implemented decoding of setsockopt syscall multicast arguments.
179 * Enhanced decoding of struct sigevent.
180 * Enhanced decoding of block, loop, mtd, ptp, rtc, SG_IO, socket, tty,
181 and v4l2 ioctl syscall arguments.
182 * Enhanced decoding of epoll_create, fcntl, fcntl64, futex, getdents,
183 getdents64, getsockopt, io_*, mount, msgctl, prctl, quotactl, recvfrom,
184 sendfile, setsockopt, and shmctl syscalls.
185 * Implemented decoding of bpf, execveat, ioperm, iopl, kcmp, kexec_file_load,
186 lookup_dcookie, membarrier, memfd_create, mlock2, name_to_handle_at,
187 open_by_handle_at, sched_getattr, sched_setattr, and userfaultfd syscalls.
188 * Updated lists of AF_*, EPOLL_*, FALLOC_FL_*, F_*, INPUT_PROP_*, IPPROTO_*,
189 IPV6_*, IP_*, KEY_*, LOCK_*, MNT_*, MS_*, PACKET_*, PERF_FLAG_*, PF_*,
190 PR_*, PTRACE_O_*, RENAME_*, SCTP_*, SECBIT_*, SO_*, TCP_*, and siginfo_t
192 * Added Nios II architecture support.
193 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 4.4.
196 * Fixed potential short read of strings from tracee's memory.
197 * Fixed -qq option in conjunction with -o option.
198 * Fixed filtering of <unavailable> syscalls.
199 * Fixed decoding of ioctl syscall command on aarch64 and 32-bit architectures
200 with 64-bit aligned structures.
201 * Fixed decoding of eventfd2, epoll_create1, signalfd4, and sync_file_range2
202 syscall flags arguments.
203 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of clock_nanosleep syscall.
204 * Fixed decoding of getpagesize syscall on m68k.
205 * Fixed decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls on aarch64.
206 * Fixed decoding of timezone argument of gettimeofday and settimeofday
208 * Fixed decoding of offset argument of mmap2 syscall on arm, sparc,
210 * Fixed decoding of pipe syscall on alpha and mips.
211 * Fixed decoding of pipe2 syscall on ia64, sh, sparc, and sparc64.
212 * Fixed decoding of signal mask argument of pselect6 syscall on x32.
213 * Fixed decoding of signal mask of rt_sigreturn syscall on aarch64, m68k,
215 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of semctl indirect syscall.
216 * Fixed decoding of sa_restorer and sa_mask of sigaction syscall on m68k.
217 * Fixed decoding of statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls on arm eabi.
218 * Fixed decoding of struct dirent on x32.
219 * Fixed decoding of times syscall return value on mips n32 and x32.
220 * Fixed decoding of path argument of umount2 syscall
221 (addresses Debian bug #785050).
222 * Worked around a kernel bug in tracing privileged executables.
223 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
224 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
227 Noteworthy changes in release 4.10 (2015-03-06)
228 ===============================================
231 * Added -yy option to print protocol and address information associated with
233 * Extended "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" options to cover sendmsg,
234 recvmsg, sendmmsg, and recvmmsg syscalls.
235 * Implemented full 32-bit decoding of ioctl commands
236 (addresses Debian bug #692913 and Fedora bug #902788).
237 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on ia64.
238 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on mips.
239 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGSET API support on s390/s390x.
240 * Implemented decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls.
241 * Implemented full decoding of 64-bit capability sets.
242 * Implemented decoding of all prctl commands.
243 * Implemented decoding of parametrized ioctl commands.
244 * Implemented decoding of evdev ioctl commands.
245 * Implemented decoding of v4l ioctl commands.
246 * Implemented decoding of SG_IO v4 ioctl commands.
247 * Implemented decoding of FIFREEZE/FITHAW/FITRIM ioctl commands.
248 * Implemented decoding of FALLOC_FL_* fallocate flags.
249 * Implemented decoding of rt_sigreturn signal mask on aarch64,
251 * Enhanced socket decoder to support bluetooth sockets.
252 * Enhanced decoding of unlisted ioctl commands.
253 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscall.
254 * Enhanced decoding of sysinfo syscall.
255 * Enhanced decoding of struct cmsghdr.
256 * Enhanced decoding of wait status.
257 * Enhanced aio support on non-x86 architectures by using external libaio.h.
258 * Added O_TMPFILE to the list of recognized open mode flags.
259 * Updated the list of filesystem type constants that is used in decoding
260 statfs family syscalls.
261 * Updated lists of CAP_*, PR_*, PTRACE_*, SCHED_*, SO_*, SOL_*, SWAP_FLAG_*,
263 * Updated lists of signal constants from Linux 3.19.
264 * Updated lists of errno constants from Linux 3.19.
265 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 3.9.
266 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.19.
269 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
270 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
272 * Fixed quoting issues in printing descriptors, filenames, network interface
273 names, struct utsname members, device/volume names of BLK* ioctl commands.
274 * Fixed uid_t/git_t decoding.
275 * Fixed potential out-of-bounds read issues in getdents/getdents64 decoders.
276 * Fixed potential open flags truncation on some architectures.
277 * Fixed decoding of struct ifreq.ifr_name.
278 * Fixed decoding of SIOCSIFNAME ioctl command.
279 * Fixed decoding of RENAME_* renameat2 flags.
280 * Fixed decoding of UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT timeval structures.
281 * Fixed decoding of indirect ipc subcalls on some architectures.
282 * Fixed decoding of fanotify_mark syscall on 32-bit architectures.
283 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit stat structures on 64-bit architectures.
284 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit struct cmsghdr on 64-bit architectures.
285 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit preadv/pwritev offset on 64-bit architectures.
286 * Fixed decoding of sigreturn/rt_sigreturn signal mask on ia64, ppc, ppc64,
287 sparc, sparc64, mips, and s390.
288 * Fixed instruction pointer output (-i option) on architectures that support
289 several personalities.
290 * Fixed behaviour of "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" when read and write
292 * Fixed build on systems where struct sigaction has no sa_restorer member.
293 * Fixed build with uclibc and musl libc.
296 * Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required.
297 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_SETOPTIONS support will not work.
298 * On mips, linux kernel >= 2.6.15 is required.
299 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work.
300 * On s390 and s390x, linux kernel >= 2.6.27 is required.
301 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGSET support will not work.
303 Noteworthy changes in release 4.9 (2014-08-15)
304 ==============================================
306 * Changes in behavior
307 * Disabled OABI support on ARM EABI systems by default,
308 added --enable-arm-oabi option to enable it at configure time.
311 * Added experimental -k option to print stack trace after each traced syscall.
312 * Added -w option to produce stats on syscall latency.
313 (addresses Debian bug #457497).
314 * Added ARC architecture support.
315 * Added PTRACE_GETREGS API support on PowerPC.
316 * Enhanced Bionic libc and musl libc support.
317 * Enhanced tracing of x86 personality processes on x86_64 and x32.
318 * Enhanced tracing of ARM personality processes on AArch64.
319 * Enhanced 32/64bit personality detection on PowerPC.
320 * Implemented decoding of add_key, ioprio_get, ioprio_set, kexec_load, keyctl,
321 renameat2, and request_key syscalls.
322 * Robustified decoding of select, pselect, and io_submit syscalls.
323 * Enhanced decoding of delete_module, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, fcntl,
324 setdomainname, sethostname, setns, and sync_file_range syscalls.
325 * Enhanced decoding of signal bitmasks.
326 * Enhanced decoding of file descriptors.
327 * Enhanced siginfo_t decoding.
328 * Enhanced PF_NETLINK decoding.
329 * Updated CLOCK_* constants
330 (addresses Fedora bug #1088455).
331 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.16.
334 * Added shmat and shmdt to the set of memory mapping related syscalls.
335 * Fixed detaching from stopped processes.
336 * Fixed fanotify_mark decoding on 32bit architectures.
337 * Fixed offset decoding in preadv and pwritev syscalls.
338 * Fixed select decoding for glibc in _FORTIFY_SOURCE mode.
339 * Fixed decoding of epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_DEL argument.
340 * Fixed build when <sys/ptrace.h> and <linux/ptrace.h> conflict
341 (addresses Fedora bug #993384).
342 * Miscellaneous corrections in the manual page.
343 (Addresses Debian bug #725987).
345 Noteworthy changes in release 4.8 (2013-06-03)
346 ==============================================
348 * Changes in behavior
349 * In case of normal strace termination, when the trace output is
350 redirected to a pipe, strace now closes it and waits for the pipe
351 process termination before exit.
354 * Implemented tracing using PTRACE_SEIZE API (when available).
355 * Implemented more reliable PTRACE_GETREGSET-based process personality
356 detection on x86-64 and x32 (when available).
357 * Added -e trace=memory option for tracing memory mapping related syscalls.
358 * Documented -b option.
359 * Allowed exit status messages to be suppressed by giving -q option twice.
360 * Added AArch64 architecture support
361 (addresses Debian bug #693074 and Fedora bug #969858).
362 * Added support for OpenRISC 1000, Meta, and Xtensa architectures.
363 * Added tilegx personality support for Tile.
364 * Enhanced support of NOMMU architectures.
365 * Enhanced decoding of getdents, mmap, perf_event_open, ptrace, and
367 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.9.
368 * Regenerated the list of common ioctl names from Linux 3.9.
369 * Updated the list of errno constants.
370 * Updated lists of AF_*, MADV_*, MAP_*, MSG_*, MS_*, PF_*, PR_*,
371 PTRACE_O_*, and TCP_* constants.
372 * Implemented decoding of UBI ioctls.
373 * Removed redundant "*32" ioctl names.
376 * Fixed ERESTARTNOINTR leaking to userspace on ancient kernels
377 (addresses Fedora bug #659382).
378 * Fixed kernel release string parsing
379 (addresses Debian bug #702309).
380 * Fixed decoding of *xattr syscalls
381 (addresses Fedora bug #885233).
382 * Fixed handling of files with 64-bit inode numbers by 32-bit strace
383 (addresses Fedora bug #912790).
384 * Fixed tracing forks on SPARC.
385 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, ftruncate64, io_submit, pread,
386 preadv, pwrite, pwritev, readahead, sigaltstack, sync_file_range, sysctl,
387 and truncate64 syscalls.
388 * Fixed categories of multiple syscalls on most of supported architectures.
389 * Fixed decoding of non-native 32-bit personality recv[m]msg syscalls.
390 * Fixed decoding of multiple 32-bit personality syscalls on x32.
391 * Fixed decoding of long long syscall arguments on ARM, MIPS/o32, PowerPC,
392 S390x, and Tile architectures.
393 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on S390x.
394 * Fixed sram_alloc decoding on Blackfin.
395 * Fixed build when process_vm_readv is a stab.
396 * Fixed build with older versions of libaio.h.
398 Noteworthy changes in release 4.7 (2012-05-02)
399 ==============================================
401 * Changes in behavior
402 * strace no longer suspends waitpid until there is a child
403 for waitpid'ing process to collect status from.
404 * strace no longer detaches from a tracee which is supposed
406 * strace now issues a new message: "+++ exited with EXITCODE +++"
407 which shows exact moment strace got exit notification,
408 analogous to existing "+++ killed by SIG +++" message.
411 * Added x32 personality support (x86_64 architecture).
412 * Added -y and -P options to print file descriptor paths and
413 filter by those paths.
414 * Added -I option to control strace interactivity.
415 * Allowed -p option to take comma or whitespace-separated list of PIDs.
416 * Added strace_log_merge script helper to merge timestamped "strace -ff"
418 * Implemented decoding of clock_adjtime, get_robust_list, migrate_pages,
419 preadv, prlimit64, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, pwritev,
420 recvmmsg, recvmsg, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sendmmsg, setns, set_robust_list,
421 sched_rr_get_interval, splice, syslog, tee and vmsplice syscalls.
422 * Enhanced decoding of capget, capset, getrlimit, flistxattr, io_submit,
423 listxattr, setrlimit and swapon syscalls.
424 * Implemented decoding of loop and mtd ioctls.
425 * Added syscall entries for new linux syscalls.
426 * Added syscall entries for direct socket system calls on powerpc.
427 * Updated the list of errno constants.
428 * Updated lists of MSG_*, STA_*, and TCP_* constants.
429 * Regenerated the list of ioctl names from Linux 3.3.
430 * Enhanced switching between processes with different personalities.
431 * Enhanced signals reporting by using short signal names.
432 * Made ERESTART* messages more descriptive.
433 * Made parsing of numbers from strings more robust.
434 * Added support for compat_statfs64 and statfs64.f_flags.
435 * Changed read of data blocks to use single process_vm_readv syscall
436 (when available) instead of several PTRACE_PEEKDATA operations.
437 * Changed read of registers on x86 and x86-64 to use single PTRACE_GETREGS
438 operation instead of several PTRACE_PEEKUSER operations.
439 * Applied various optimizations to make strace work faster.
442 * Implemented proper handling of real SIGTRAPs on kernels supporting
443 PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD.
444 (Addresses Fedora bug #162774).
445 * Fixed sockaddr_un.sun_path name in decoded output.
446 (Addresses Debian bug #554946).
447 * Fixed to avoid potential core file clobbering on exit.
448 (Addresses Debian bug #656398).
449 * Fixed a typo in documentation.
450 (Addresses Debian bug #653309).
451 * Fixed decoding of timer id returned by timer_create.
452 * Fixed epoll_create1, epoll_wait and epoll_pwait decoding.
453 * Fixed *at syscalls flags decoding.
454 * Fixed ARM EABI 64-bit syscall's arguments decoding.
455 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on s390.
456 * Fixed osf_sigprocmask decoding on alpha.
457 * Fixed ipc and socket subcall decoding on several architectures.
458 * Corrected syscall entries for epoll_pwait, epoll_create, epoll_ctl,
459 epoll_wait, mincore, mlockall, prctl, reboot, sendfile, sendfile64,
460 sendmsg, sgetmask, ssetmask, swapon, tgkill and tkill syscalls.
461 * Corrected io_* syscall entries on ARM.
462 * Fixed PID prefix printing in "strace -oLOG -ff -p1 -p2 -p3" case.
463 * Fixed logging of unfinished lines in "strace -oLOG -ff" case.
464 * Fixed build when libaio-devel is not available.
465 * Fixed configure checks for PTRACE_* constants.
466 * Fixed compilation warnings remained on several architectures.
469 * Removed all non-Linux code. After years of neglect, that dead code
470 just hampered further strace development.
471 * Linux kernel >= 2.6.18 is recommended. Older versions might still
472 work but they haven't been thoroughly tested with this release.
474 Noteworthy changes in release 4.6 (2011-03-15)
475 ==============================================
477 * Changes in behavior
478 * Print diagnostic information about changes in personality mode to
479 standard error instead of standard output.
482 * Implemented a new method of following clone, fork, and vfork
483 syscalls using the Linux kernel's explicit facilities for tracing
484 creation of threads and child processes.
485 * Implemented CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_UNTRACED flags handling.
486 * Implemented decoding of TLS syscalls on m68k.
487 * Implemented biarch support on powerpc64.
488 * Implemented biarch support for getrlimit() and setrlimit().
489 * Implemented decoding of struct ucred in getsockopt SO_PEERCRED.
490 * Implemented SOL_SCTP socket options decoding.
491 * Added HDIO_* ioctl names.
492 (Addresses Debian bug #450953).
493 * Added LOOP_* ioctl names.
494 * Updated lists of CLOCK_*, CLONE_*, MS_*, and SOL_* constants
495 to match Linux 2.6.37.
496 * Updated the list of IPPROTO_* constants to match netinet/in.h.
497 * Implemented decoding of HDIO_* and BLK* ioctls.
498 * Added MicroBlaze architecture support.
499 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 2.6.37.
500 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from Linux 2.6.37.
501 * Enhanced signal notification decoding.
502 * Documented -C and -D options.
505 * Fixed fetching syscall arguments on m68k.
506 * Fixed an error when judging whether a process has children.
507 * Fixed get/set_robust_list syscall numbers for powerpc.
508 * Fixed a corner case in printing clone flags.
509 * Fixed cross-compiling issues.
510 * Fixed build issues on powerpc64, SH and SPARC.
511 * Fixed syscall flags of fstatat*, mmap, mmap2, fadvise64*, swapoff,
512 fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, epoll_create, fallocate,
513 fanotify_init, and fanotify_mark syscalls.
514 * Fixed decoding of get[ug]id, gete[ug]id and setfs[ug]id return values.
515 * Fixed biarch support in IO dumping.
516 * Fixed raw exit_group decoding.
517 * Fixed decoding of file descriptors on 64-bit architectures.
518 * Fixed a corner case in waitpid handling.
519 (Addresses Red Hat bug #663547).
520 * Fixed stat64 decoding on mips
521 (Addresses Debian bug #599028).
522 * Fixed misleading italics in the manual page.
523 (Addresses Debian bug #589323).
525 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.20 (2010-04-13)
526 =================================================
529 * Implemented decoding of new linux syscalls: inotify_init1, recvmmsg.
530 * Implemented basic decoding of new linux syscalls: preadv, pwritev,
531 rt_tgsigqueueinfo, perf_event_open.
532 * Enhanced decoding of recently added syscalls on non-x86 architectures
533 by replacing a bare decoder with elaborate parsers enabled earlier
535 * Implemented -C option to combine regular and -c output.
536 (Addresses Debian bug #466196)
537 * Enhanced decoding of mbind and mremap syscalls.
538 * Enhanced SOL_PACKET socket options decoding.
539 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from linux 2.6.33.
540 * Added TILE architecture support.
543 * Fixed build with Linux kernel headers 2.6.32-rc5+.
544 (Addresses Debian bug #560516 and Fedora bug #539044)
545 * Fixed build on mips.
546 * Fixed handling of Linux systems without struct statfs64.
547 * Fixed reporting signal mask by sigreturn on powerpc.
548 * Fixed potential stack buffer overflow in select decoder.
549 (Addresses Fedora bug #556678)
550 * Corrected msgsnd indirect ipccall decoding.
551 * Corrected decoding of 64bit syscalls.
552 (Addresses Debian bug #570603)
553 * Corrected getsockopt decoding on architectures where
554 sizeof(long) > sizeof(int).
555 (Addresses Debian bug #494844)
556 * Corrected decoding of epoll_pwait.
557 (Addresses Debian bug #513014)
558 * Corrected handling of killed threads.
560 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.19 (2009-10-21)
561 =================================================
563 * Changes in behavior
564 * When command exits, strace now exits with the same exit status.
565 If command is terminated by a signal, strace terminates itself
566 with the same signal, so that strace can be used as a wrapper
567 process transparent to the invoking parent process.
568 When using -p option, the exit status of strace is zero unless
569 there was an unexpected error in doing the tracing.
570 (Addresses Fedora bug #105371 and Debian bug #37665)
573 * Implemented decoding of new Linux syscalls: accept4, dup3,
574 epoll_create1, eventfd2, inotify_init1, pipe2, signalfd4.
575 * Implemented decoding of socket type flags introduced in Linux 2.6.27.
576 * Implemented decoding of accept4 socketcall.
577 * Enhanced prctl decoding.
578 * Enhanced nanosleep decoding.
579 * Enhanced ptrace decoding.
580 * Enhanced futex decoding.
581 * Enhanced CAP_* decoding.
582 * Enhanced SIOCS* ioctls decoding.
583 * Enhanced fcntl F_* flags decoding.
584 * Enhanced semop/semtimedop decoding.
585 * Updated ARM architecture support.
586 * Added Blackfin architecture support.
587 * Added AVR32 architecture support.
588 * Added CRIS architecture support.
589 * Made strace detect when traced process suddenly disappeared.
592 * Fixed syscall numbers for tee and sync_file_range.
593 (Addresses Debian bug #503124)
594 * Fixed several bugs in strings decoder, including potential heap
596 (Addresses Fedora bugs #470529, #478324 and #511035)
597 * Marked sendfile(2) as a network syscall.
598 (Addresses Debian bug #509499)
599 * Fixed accept(2) decoding.
600 (Addresses Debian bug #507573)
601 * Fixed sigtimedwait(2) decoding.
602 * Fixed build on ARM EABI.
603 (Addresses Debian bugs #520084 and #535564, and Fedora bug #507576)
604 * Fixed display of 32-bit fcntl(F_SETLK) on 64-bit architectures.
605 (Addresses Red Hat bug #471169)
606 * Fixed display of 32-bit argv array on 64-bit architectures.
607 (Addresses Fedora bug #519480)
608 * Fixed display of 32-bit struct sigaction on 64-bit architectures.
609 * Fixed HPPA architecture support.
610 (Addresses Debian bugs #437928 and #546619)
615 * Support new Linux/PPC system call subpage_prot and PROT_SAO flag.
616 * In sigaction system call, display sa_flags value along with SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
621 * -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now.
622 * Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits.
623 * Improved output for prctl system call on Linux.
624 * Improved support for Linux/ARM.
625 * SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND.
630 * Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux.
631 * Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux.
632 * Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd,
633 eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait.
638 * Several biarch improvements.
639 * Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
640 * Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
645 * Accept numeric system calls in -e.
650 * Introduce "-e trace=desc".
655 * Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
656 * Update PowerPC system calls.
657 * Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
661 * Quick fix release for build issues.
662 * One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
667 * Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
672 * Improve socket ioctl printing.
673 * Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
674 * Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
675 * Improve mount flags printing.
676 * Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
681 * Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
682 * Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
683 * Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
684 * Improve ioctl command name matching.
685 * Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
686 * Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
687 * Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
692 * Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
693 * Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
694 * Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
695 * Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
699 * Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
700 * David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
708 * Update Linux ioctl lists.
709 * Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
710 * The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
715 * On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
716 * Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
721 * Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
722 * Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
727 * Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
731 * New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
732 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
733 * Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
734 * New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
735 * Merged s390/s390x port.
736 * Trace an unbounded number of processes.
737 * Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
738 * Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
739 * Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
740 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
741 * Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
742 * Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
743 * Many other bug fixes.
747 * Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
748 * Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
749 Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
753 * compile fixes for Linux/mips
757 * Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
758 * The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
759 * Linux ioctl list updated
760 * Support IPv6 scope ids
761 * FreeBSD/i386 port added
762 * UnixWare and Solaris updates
763 * Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
767 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
768 * Linux/S390 port added
769 * The usual Linux syscall updates
770 * we can follow fork on arm now
774 * Linux/MIPS port added
775 * Lots of Linux updates again
776 * Improved IPv6 support
782 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
786 * Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
787 * Personalities work again
788 * Compile correctly on SunOS again
794 * Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
801 * add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
802 * support lots more Linux syscalls
803 * fix signal handling
804 * add IPX and IPIP support
805 * check stray syscall after execv
806 * fix hanging children
808 Changes in version 3.1
809 ======================
812 * Linux 68k is supported
813 * Linux alpha is supported
814 * configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
815 * using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
816 * output can be piped to a program
817 * tracing setuid programs works better
818 * it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
819 * new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
820 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
821 take a file name as an argument
822 * IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
823 * Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
824 * Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
825 * various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
827 Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
828 ========================================
830 * filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
831 * string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
832 * preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
833 * by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
834 * all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
835 * the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
837 New Features in version 3.0
838 ===========================
840 * non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
841 * the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
842 * exit values are printed in an alignment column
843 * is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
844 * various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
845 * selective tracing of syscalls
846 * selective printing of syscall structures
847 * selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
848 * selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
849 * selective tracing of signals
850 * selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
851 * selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
852 * optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall
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