1 Noteworthy changes in release ?.?? (????-??-??)
2 ===============================================
5 * Warning is now issued when -F option is used.
6 * Warning is now issued when a tracee with unsupported personality
10 * Implemented decoding of netlink descriptor attributes as file descriptors.
11 * Implemented decoding of hugetlb page size selection flags.
12 * Implemented decoding of BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN, BPF_PROG_GET_NEXT_ID,
13 BPF_MAP_GET_NEXT_ID, BPF_PROG_GET_FD_BY_ID, BPF_MAP_GET_FD_BY_ID,
14 and BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD commands of bpf syscall.
15 * Enhanced decoding of get_thread_area, memfd_create, modify_ldt,
16 perf_event_open, reboot, set_thread_area, and shmget syscalls.
17 * Implemented decoding of KVM_* ioctl commands.
18 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscalls for SOL_NETLINK
20 * Enhanced decoding of BPF_MAP_CREATE command of bpf syscall.
21 * Print values returned by mq_open syscall and first arguments
22 of mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_timedreceive, and mq_timedsend syscalls
24 * Updated lists of MSG_*, NT_*, and SHM_* constants.
25 * Added manual page for the strace-log-merge command.
26 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.15.
27 * Implemented biarch support for s390x.
28 * Implemented an optional support for symbol demangling in strace -k output
29 (activated by --with-libiberty configure option).
30 * Information about availability of demangling and reliable personality
31 decoding (on architectures with multiple personalities) is now available
33 * Enhanced manual page.
36 * Fixed multi-personality support in cross builds.
37 * Added mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_open, mq_timedreceive, and mq_timedsend
38 syscalls to %desc tracing set.
39 * Fixed path tracing support for mmap syscalls with indirect arguments.
40 * Fixed corner cases in handling of strace -ff -ttt logs by strace-log-merge.
41 * Error counts that exceed one billion are now printed correctly in call
43 * Fixed call summary header for x32 personality.
44 * Changes of tracee personalities are reported more reliably.
47 * A C compiler that supports "for" loop initial declarations is now required.
48 * Inability to configure multiple personality support on architectures where
49 multiple personalities are supported leads to configuration failure during
50 build now. Use --enable-mpers=check to revert to the old behaviour.
52 Noteworthy changes in release 4.20 (2017-11-13)
53 ===============================================
56 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_NETFILTER netlink message types and flags.
57 * Implemented decoding of SECCOMP_GET_ACTION_AVAIL operation of seccomp
59 * Updated lists of ARPHRD_*, BPF_*, ETH_P_*, LOOP_*, MADV_*,
60 MEMBARRIER_CMD_*, MFD_*, SECCOMP_*, SO_*, SOL_*, TCP_*, and UFFD_FEATURE_*
62 * Added decoding of statx syscall on hppa.
63 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.14.
66 * Fixed powerpc personality support on powerpc64.
68 Noteworthy changes in release 4.19 (2017-09-05)
69 ===============================================
71 * Changes in behaviour
72 * Changed formatting of personality names on tile architecture in order
73 to make it in line with other multi-personality architectures.
74 * Changed field output order in struct v4l2_requestbuffers to improve in/out
76 * Changed handling of multiple signal= specifications in an injection
77 expression: multiple specification now leads to error instead of implicit
78 usage the last specification.
81 * Enhanced decoding of optlen argument of getsockopt syscall.
82 * Enhanced decoding of SO_LINGER option of getsockopt and setsockopt syscalls.
83 * Enhanced decoding of SO_PEERCRED option of getsockopt syscall.
84 * Enhanced decoding of IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP,
85 IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, IPV6_DROP_MEMBERSHIP, IPV6_JOIN_ANYCAST,
86 IPV6_LEAVE_ANYCAST, MCAST_JOIN_GROUP, and MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP options
87 of setsockopt syscall.
88 * Enhanced decoding of KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE operation of keyctl syscall
89 (KDF parameters decoding).
90 * Implemented decoding of KEYCTL_RESTRICT_KEYRING operation of keyctl syscall.
91 * Enhanced decoding of UFFDIO_API ioctl command.
92 * Enhanced decoding of BPF_PROG_LOAD, BPF_MAP_CREATE, BPF_MAP_LOOKUP_ELEM,
93 and BPF_MAP_GET_NEXT_KEY commands of bpf syscall.
94 * Implemented decoding of linux socket filter programs specified
95 for SO_ATTACH_FILTER and SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_CBPF socket options.
96 * Implemented decoding of inet_diag_req_v2, inet_diag_req_compat,
97 packet_diag_msg, and smc_diag_msg netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
98 * Implemented NETLINK_SELINUX protocol specific decoding.
99 * Implemented decoding of netlink message ack flags.
100 * Implemented decoding of nlmsgerr netlink attributes.
101 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of NETLINK_CRYPTO.
102 * Implemented decoding of crypto_user_alg netlink attributes
104 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of addr, addrlabel, dcb, link,
105 mdb, neigh, neightbl, netconf, nsid, route, rule, tc, and tca messages
107 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT messages.
108 * Improved handling of unexpected tracees (the ones that cloned with
109 CLONE_PARENT/CLONE_PTRACE or called PTRACE_TRACEME on themselves): they
110 are now PTRACE_DETACH'ed instead of PTRACE_CONT'ed.
111 * Updated lists of BPF_*, KEY_*, RWF_*, SCM_*, SO_*, and *_MAGIC constants.
112 * Added decoding of arch_prctl syscall on x86.
113 * Added decoding of seccomp, bpf, userfaultfd, membarrier, mlock2,
114 copy_file_range, preadv2, pwritev2, and statx on alpha.
115 * Added decoding of statx syscall on microblaze.
116 * Added decoding of s390_guarded_storage syscall on s390.
117 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.13.
118 * Enhanced manual page.
121 * Fixed printing of group_req structure on non-native personalities.
122 * Fixed output formatting of blkpg_ioctl_arg, dm_name_list, and iocb
124 * Fixed formatting of nul-terminated strings which have kernel-imposed size
126 * Fixed printing of paths that hit PATM_MAX limit in order to match kernel's
128 * Fixed build warnings on Android mips64.
129 * Fixed unused function "is_negated_errno" build warning when built
131 * Fixed syscall number and arguments retrieval behaviour on sparc64 and
132 mips o32 after prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 0) makes PTRACE_PEEKTEXT impossible
133 to use if Linux kernel has commit v4.10-rc1~114^2~2.
134 * Fixed path tracing for execveat, symlink, symlinkat, inotify_add_watch,
135 and inotify_init syscalls.
136 * Fixed personality switch printing on sparc64 and risc-v.
138 Noteworthy changes in release 4.18 (2017-07-05)
139 ===============================================
142 * Implemented decoding of SCM_TIMESTAMP* control messages.
143 * Implemented decoding of netlink NLMSG_DONE messages.
144 * Implemented decoding of netlink generic nlmsg_type and nlmsg_flags.
145 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_AUDIT, NETLINK_NETFILTER, NETLINK_ROUTE,
146 NETLINK_SELINUX, NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG, and NETLINK_XFRM message types.
147 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_GENERIC protocol families.
148 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of AF_INET, AF_INET6,
149 AF_NETLINK, AF_PACKET, AF_SMC, and AF_UNIX messages of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
150 * Implemented basic decoding of netlink attributes.
151 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of AF_INET, AF_NETLINK,
152 AF_PACKET, AF_SMC, and AF_UNIX netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
153 * Implemented decoding of inet_diag_msg, netlink_diag_msg, and unix_diag_msg
154 netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
155 * Updated lists of ARPHRD_*, KEYCTL_*, NDIAG_SHOW_*, RTM_*, SCM_*, SCTP_*,
156 SO_*, V4L2_*, and prctl ARCH_* constants.
157 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.12.
160 * In interactive mode (-I2), those signals that were blocked at startup
161 will remain blocked for the whole period of strace execution.
162 * strace no longer resets SIGCHLD handler in tracees to the default action.
163 * When traced command is terminated by a blocked signal, strace unblocks
164 that signal to ensure its own termination with the same signal.
165 * Fixed corner cases in decoding of old sigaction syscall.
166 * Fixed build with old kernel headers on mips.
167 * Fixed build on aarch64 and tile with glibc >= 2.26.
168 * Fixed build on arc and nios2.
170 Noteworthy changes in release 4.17 (2017-05-24)
171 ===============================================
173 * Changes in command line syntax
174 * Syscall classes specified in -e trace= option now have % prefix (like
175 -e trace=%process). Old style class names without leading % are still
176 supported, but considered deprecated now.
179 * Optimized syscall filtering.
180 * Improved representation of timestamps.
181 * Enhanced decoding of sched_setattr syscall.
182 * Added -e trace=%stat option for tracing variants of stat syscall.
183 * Added -e trace=%lstat option for tracing variants of lstat syscall.
184 * Added -e trace=%fstat option for tracing variants of fstat and fstatat
186 * Added -e trace=%%stat option for tracing syscalls used for querying file
187 status information (stat, lstat, fstat, fstatat, statx, and their
189 * Added -e trace=%statfs option for tracing statfs, statfs64 and statvfs
191 * Added -e trace=%fstatfs option for tracing fstatfs, fstatfs64 and fstatvfs
193 * Added -e trace=%%statfs option for tracing syscalls used for querying file
194 system statistics information (statfs-like, fstatfs-like and ustat).
195 * Added -e trace=/regex option for filtering syscalls using regular
197 * Added support for prepending of question mark before syscall qualification
198 in -e trace expressions in order to suppress error in case no syscalls
199 matched the provided qualification.
200 * Implemented decoding of signal mask in rt_sigreturn syscall on alpha, arc,
201 arm, avr32, bfin, cris, hppa, m68k, metag, microblaze, mips, nios2, or1k,
202 powerpc, powerpc64, riscv, sh, sh64, sparc, sparc64, tile, x86, and xtensa
204 * Implemented decoding of statx syscall.
205 * Implemented decoding of NS_* ioctl commands.
206 * Implemented decoding of the remaining V4L2_BUF_TYPE_* types.
207 * Implemented decoding of VIDIOC_[SG]_TUNER ioctl commands.
208 * Implemented decoding of NLMSG_ERROR netlink messages.
209 * Improved decoding of BPF_PROG_ATTACH command of bpf syscall.
210 * Improved decoding of misplaced parts in DM_* ioctl commands.
211 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.11.
214 * Fixed decoding of flags argument of preadv2 and pwritev2 syscalls on x32.
215 * Fixed the number of arguments and tracing flags of alpha specific syscalls.
216 * Fixed decoding of old sigsuspend syscall on alpha, cris, mips, powerpc,
217 powerpc64, sh, sh64, sparc, and sparc64.
218 * Fixed decoding of sgetmask and ssetmask syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
219 * Fixed decoding of netlink messages received within struct msghdr.
220 * Worked around a bug in miscompiled aarch64 kernels leading to the 3rd
221 argument of sched_getattr syscall being not quite 32-bit.
222 * Fixed corner cases of printing inaccessible times argument of utimes
223 and futimesat syscalls.
225 Noteworthy changes in release 4.16 (2017-02-14)
226 ===============================================
229 * Implemented syscall return value injection (-e inject=SET:retval= option).
230 * Implemented signal injection (-e inject=SET:signal= option).
231 * Implemented decoding of SUID_DUMP_* constants in PR_[GS]ET_DUMPABLE.
232 * Implemented decoding of all SG_* ioctl commands.
233 * Implemented decoding of ustat syscall.
234 * Implemented decoding of BPF_OBJ_PIN, BPF_OBJ_GET, BPF_PROG_ATTACH,
235 and BPF_PROG_DETACH commands of bpf syscall.
236 * Enhanced decoding of sg_io_hdr and sg_io_v4 structures.
237 * Enhanced decoding of get_robust_list, getrandom, io_submit, set_robust_list
239 * Enhanced decoding of entities of kernel long type on x32 and mips n32 ABIs.
240 * Updated lists of IP_*, IPV6_*, and LOOP_* constants.
241 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.10.
242 * Added decoding of recently added syscalls on avr32, microblaze, ppc,
246 * Fixed pathmatch of oldselect syscall on 64-bit architectures.
247 * Fixed decoding of mmap2 syscall on s390 when arguments are not available.
248 * Fixed decoding of kexec_file_load, mprotect, pkey_mprotect, prctl, preadv*,
249 and pwritev* syscalls on x32.
250 * Fixed printing of string arguments of getxattr and setxattr syscalls
251 when -s option is used to limit the printed string size.
252 * Fixed decoding of ifconf, ifreq, and loop_info structures on non-native
254 * Fixed decoding of SG_* and LOOP_* ioctl commands.
255 * Fixed build on mips with musl libc.
256 * Fixed cross-building of ioctlsort.
257 * Applied minor formatting fixes to the manual page.
259 Noteworthy changes in release 4.15 (2016-12-14)
260 ===============================================
262 * Changes in behavior
263 * Time stamps are now printed according to ISO 8601.
264 * Changed output format of val3 parameter of futex FUTEX_WAKE_OP operation.
265 * The last argument of mincore, sched_getaffinity, and sched_setaffinity
266 syscalls is now formatted as an array.
269 * Implemented syscall fault injection (-e fault=... option).
270 * Implemented decoding of DM_* ioctl commands.
271 * Implemented decoding of attr parameter of perf_event_open syscall.
272 * Implemented decoding of pkey_alloc, pkey_free, and pkey_mprotect syscalls.
273 * Implemented dumping of mq_timedsend and mq_timedreceive syscalls.
274 * Implemented decoding of PR_SET_FP_MODE and PR_GET_FP_MODE operations
276 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on m68k.
277 * Updated lists of ARCH_*, BPF_*, BTRFS_*, FALLOC_*, MS_*, *_MAGIC,
278 and V4L2_* constants.
279 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.9.
280 * Added decoding of recently added syscalls on arc, x32, and xtensa.
281 * Enhanced manual page.
284 * Fixed corner cases in decoding of exit, exit_group, futimesat, getgroups,
285 getresuid, init_module, inotify_init1, kcmp, kexec_load, lookup_dcookie,
286 mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_open, mq_timedreceive, mq_timedsend,
287 name_to_handle_at, prctl, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, setfsuid,
288 setgroups, setns, unshare, and utimes syscalls.
289 * Fixed handling of verbose flag in printing of controls array
290 of struct v4l2_ext_controls.
291 * Fixed omission of field names in the output of capability, sigaction,
292 sigevent, statfs, timespec, timeval, and utimbuf structures.
293 * Fixed printing of unknown syscalls in siginfo structure.
294 * Fixed decoding of ioctl constants on m68k.
295 * Fixed cris architecture support.
296 * Fixed cross build when host compiler does not support the same
297 set of warning flags as the cross compiler.
298 * Fixed build on SLE10 and SLE11.
300 Noteworthy changes in release 4.14 (2016-10-04)
301 ===============================================
303 * Changes in behavior
304 * When using -p option without a command and no processes has been attached,
305 strace exits with exit status 1.
308 * Added printing of the mode argument of open and openat syscalls
309 when O_TMPFILE flag is set. (Addresses Fedora bug #1377846).
310 * Enhanced -e abbrev=set, -e raw=set, and -e verbose=set.
311 * Enhanced decoding of futex, keyctl, quotactl, timerfd_settime,
312 and aio family syscalls.
313 * Implemented fetching of the 7th subcall argument on mips o32.
314 * Updated lists of BPF_*, ETH_P_*, KEXEC_ARCH_*, SCTP_*, TCP_*, and *_MAGIC
316 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.8.
317 * Added decoding of new syscalls on sh and sh64.
318 * Added RISC-V architecture support.
321 * Marked io_setup and io_destroy as memory mapping related syscalls.
322 * Fixed leakage of placeholder descriptors to tracees.
323 * Fixed printing of mode_t, umode_t, and umask types.
324 * Fixed decoding of iovec arrays without a limit on total data size.
325 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, futex, keyctl, quotactl, readahead,
326 and ipc family syscalls.
327 * Fixed decoding of invalid syscalls mapped to indirect subcalls.
328 * Fixed decoding of struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args_v2 on non-native
330 * Fixed decoding of PTRACE_DETACH on sparc and sparc64.
331 * Fixed decoding of struct stat64 on sparc64.
332 * Fixed decoding of uid and gid-related syscalls on sparc64.
333 * Fixed decoding of the forth argument of semctl syscall on sparc64.
334 * Fixed values of tty ioctl constants on sparc64.
335 * Fixed sparc personality support on sparc64.
337 Noteworthy changes in release 4.13 (2016-07-26)
338 ===============================================
341 * Implemented a general netlink socket parser.
342 * Enhanced decoding of socket addresses.
343 * Enhanced decoding of cmsghdr, msghdr, and mmsghdr structures.
344 * Enhanced decoding of accept, accept4, bind, getpeername, getsockname,
345 ipc, recvfrom, recvmsg, recvmmsg, sendto, sendmmsg, and socketcall syscalls.
346 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, KEY_*, KEYCTL_*, RWF_*, SS_*,
347 and *_MAGIC constants.
348 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.7.
351 * Fixed decoding of pid_t argument of prlimit64 syscall.
352 * Fixed sign extension issues in the parser of struct rusage.
353 * Fixed race condition in decoding of timeout argument of recvmmsg and
354 rt_sigtimedwait syscalls.
355 * Fixed build with fresh linux kernel headers.
357 Noteworthy changes in release 4.12 (2016-05-31)
358 ===============================================
361 * Implemented simultaneous use of -p option and tracing of a command.
362 (addresses Debian bug #549942).
363 * Implemented caching of netlink conversations to reduce amount of time
364 spent in decoding socket details in -yy mode.
365 * Implemented -yy mode decoding of protocol:portid pairs associated with
366 netlink socket descriptors.
367 * Implemented decoding of copy_file_range, preadv2, and pwritev2 syscalls.
368 * Implemented dumping of preadv, preadv2, pwritev, pwritev2, and vmsplice
370 * Implemented decoding of BTRFS_* and UFFDIO_* ioctl commands.
371 * Enhanced decoding of BLK*, EVIOC*, RTC_*, and VIDIOC_* ioctl commands.
372 * Enhanced decoding of fstatfs, fstatfs64, get_mempolicy, getdents,
373 getdents64, getgroups, getpriority, kill, mbind, migrate_pages, mknod,
374 mknodat, personality, poll, ppoll, quotactl, rt_sigpending,
375 rt_sigqueueinfo, rt_sigtimedwait, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sched_getaffinity,
376 sched_setaffinity, seccomp, set_mempolicy, setgroups, setpriority, statfs,
377 statfs64, tgkill, waitid, and xattr family syscalls.
378 * Enhanced decoding of getxpid, getxuid, and getxgid syscalls on alpha.
379 * Enhanced decoding of pipe syscall on alpha, ia64, mips, sh, and sparc.
380 * Added decoding of bind, listen, and setsockopt direct syscalls on sparc.
381 * Added decoding of osf_statfs64 and osf_fstatfs64 syscalls on alpha.
382 * Added decoding of fadvise64 and fadvise64_64 on s390.
383 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, CLONE_*, EPOLL*, IPV6_*, MADV_*,
384 MSG_*, PTRACE_*, SEGV_*, SO_*, SOL_*, *_MAGIC, and quotactl constants.
385 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.6.
388 * Fixed build on arc, metag, nios2, or1k, and tile architectures.
389 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit times syscall return value on 64-bit architectures.
390 * Fixed decoding of mlock2 syscall on sparc.
391 * Fixed decoding of osf_shmat syscall on alpha.
392 * Fixed decoding of syscalls unknown to the kernel on s390/s390x.
393 (addresses Debian bug #485979 and Fedora bug #1298294).
394 * Fixed decoding of preadv syscall in case of short read.
395 * Fixed decoding and dumping of readv syscall in case of short read.
396 * Fixed dumping of recvmsg and recvmmsg syscalls in case of short read.
397 * Fixed decoding of mincore syscall's last argument.
398 * Fixed remaining errors in mapping between syscall numbers and numbers
399 of syscall arguments.
400 * Applied various fixes to strace-graph script.
402 Noteworthy changes in release 4.11 (2015-12-21)
403 ===============================================
405 * Changes in behavior
406 * Some syscalls have different names depending on architecture and
407 personality. In these cases, syscall filtering and printing now
408 consistently uses the names that match corresponding __NR_* kernel
409 macros of the tracee's architecture and personality.
410 * Added strace prefix to all diagnostic messages.
413 * Enhanced and extended test suite.
414 * Implemented reliable tracing of processes whose personality differs
415 from the personality of strace, fixed decoding of 32-bit personality
416 syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
417 * When some data referenced by syscall arguments is irrelevant or cannot
418 be read from tracee's memory, strace now prints its address consistently.
419 * When a syscall is restarted using restart_syscall mechanism, strace now
420 shows the syscall name on architectures that expose this information.
421 * Print values returned by epoll_create1, eventfd, eventfd2, fanotify_init,
422 inotify_init1, perf_event_open, pipe, pipe2, signalfd, signalfd4, socket,
423 socketpair, timerfd, and timerfd_create syscalls, as well as F_DUPFD and
424 F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC fcntl commands, as file descriptors.
425 * Optimized decoding of indirect socket syscalls.
426 * Implemented decoding of nanoseconds along with seconds in stat family
427 syscalls (addresses Fedora bug #1251176).
428 * Implemented decoding of struct statfs.f_flags in statfs syscall.
429 * Implemented decoding of siginfo_t.si_syscall and siginfo_t.si_arch
431 * Implemented decoding of indirect syscall on mips o32.
432 * Implemented decoding of IPPROTO_IP control messages.
433 * Implemented decoding of setsockopt syscall multicast arguments.
434 * Enhanced decoding of struct sigevent.
435 * Enhanced decoding of block, loop, mtd, ptp, rtc, SG_IO, socket, tty,
436 and v4l2 ioctl syscall arguments.
437 * Enhanced decoding of epoll_create, fcntl, fcntl64, futex, getdents,
438 getdents64, getsockopt, io_*, mount, msgctl, prctl, quotactl, recvfrom,
439 sendfile, setsockopt, and shmctl syscalls.
440 * Implemented decoding of bpf, execveat, ioperm, iopl, kcmp, kexec_file_load,
441 lookup_dcookie, membarrier, memfd_create, mlock2, name_to_handle_at,
442 open_by_handle_at, sched_getattr, sched_setattr, and userfaultfd syscalls.
443 * Updated lists of AF_*, EPOLL_*, FALLOC_FL_*, F_*, INPUT_PROP_*, IPPROTO_*,
444 IPV6_*, IP_*, KEY_*, LOCK_*, MNT_*, MS_*, PACKET_*, PERF_FLAG_*, PF_*,
445 PR_*, PTRACE_O_*, RENAME_*, SCTP_*, SECBIT_*, SO_*, TCP_*, and siginfo_t
447 * Added Nios II architecture support.
448 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 4.4.
451 * Fixed potential short read of strings from tracee's memory.
452 * Fixed -qq option in conjunction with -o option.
453 * Fixed filtering of <unavailable> syscalls.
454 * Fixed decoding of ioctl syscall command on aarch64 and 32-bit architectures
455 with 64-bit aligned structures.
456 * Fixed decoding of eventfd2, epoll_create1, signalfd4, and sync_file_range2
457 syscall flags arguments.
458 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of clock_nanosleep syscall.
459 * Fixed decoding of getpagesize syscall on m68k.
460 * Fixed decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls on aarch64.
461 * Fixed decoding of timezone argument of gettimeofday and settimeofday
463 * Fixed decoding of offset argument of mmap2 syscall on arm, sparc,
465 * Fixed decoding of pipe syscall on alpha and mips.
466 * Fixed decoding of pipe2 syscall on ia64, sh, sparc, and sparc64.
467 * Fixed decoding of signal mask argument of pselect6 syscall on x32.
468 * Fixed decoding of signal mask of rt_sigreturn syscall on aarch64, m68k,
470 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of semctl indirect syscall.
471 * Fixed decoding of sa_restorer and sa_mask of sigaction syscall on m68k.
472 * Fixed decoding of statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls on arm eabi.
473 * Fixed decoding of struct dirent on x32.
474 * Fixed decoding of times syscall return value on mips n32 and x32.
475 * Fixed decoding of path argument of umount2 syscall
476 (addresses Debian bug #785050).
477 * Worked around a kernel bug in tracing privileged executables.
478 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
479 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
482 Noteworthy changes in release 4.10 (2015-03-06)
483 ===============================================
486 * Added -yy option to print protocol and address information associated with
488 * Extended "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" options to cover sendmsg,
489 recvmsg, sendmmsg, and recvmmsg syscalls.
490 * Implemented full 32-bit decoding of ioctl commands
491 (addresses Debian bug #692913 and Fedora bug #902788).
492 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on ia64.
493 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on mips.
494 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGSET API support on s390/s390x.
495 * Implemented decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls.
496 * Implemented full decoding of 64-bit capability sets.
497 * Implemented decoding of all prctl commands.
498 * Implemented decoding of parametrized ioctl commands.
499 * Implemented decoding of evdev ioctl commands.
500 * Implemented decoding of v4l ioctl commands.
501 * Implemented decoding of SG_IO v4 ioctl commands.
502 * Implemented decoding of FIFREEZE/FITHAW/FITRIM ioctl commands.
503 * Implemented decoding of FALLOC_FL_* fallocate flags.
504 * Implemented decoding of rt_sigreturn signal mask on aarch64,
506 * Enhanced socket decoder to support bluetooth sockets.
507 * Enhanced decoding of unlisted ioctl commands.
508 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscall.
509 * Enhanced decoding of sysinfo syscall.
510 * Enhanced decoding of struct cmsghdr.
511 * Enhanced decoding of wait status.
512 * Enhanced aio support on non-x86 architectures by using external libaio.h.
513 * Added O_TMPFILE to the list of recognized open mode flags.
514 * Updated the list of filesystem type constants that is used in decoding
515 statfs family syscalls.
516 * Updated lists of CAP_*, PR_*, PTRACE_*, SCHED_*, SO_*, SOL_*, SWAP_FLAG_*,
518 * Updated lists of signal constants from Linux 3.19.
519 * Updated lists of errno constants from Linux 3.19.
520 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 3.9.
521 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.19.
524 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
525 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
527 * Fixed quoting issues in printing descriptors, filenames, network interface
528 names, struct utsname members, device/volume names of BLK* ioctl commands.
529 * Fixed uid_t/git_t decoding.
530 * Fixed potential out-of-bounds read issues in getdents/getdents64 decoders.
531 * Fixed potential open flags truncation on some architectures.
532 * Fixed decoding of struct ifreq.ifr_name.
533 * Fixed decoding of SIOCSIFNAME ioctl command.
534 * Fixed decoding of RENAME_* renameat2 flags.
535 * Fixed decoding of UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT timeval structures.
536 * Fixed decoding of indirect ipc subcalls on some architectures.
537 * Fixed decoding of fanotify_mark syscall on 32-bit architectures.
538 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit stat structures on 64-bit architectures.
539 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit struct cmsghdr on 64-bit architectures.
540 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit preadv/pwritev offset on 64-bit architectures.
541 * Fixed decoding of sigreturn/rt_sigreturn signal mask on ia64, ppc, ppc64,
542 sparc, sparc64, mips, and s390.
543 * Fixed instruction pointer output (-i option) on architectures that support
544 several personalities.
545 * Fixed behaviour of "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" when read and write
547 * Fixed build on systems where struct sigaction has no sa_restorer member.
548 * Fixed build with uclibc and musl libc.
551 * Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required.
552 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_SETOPTIONS support will not work.
553 * On mips, linux kernel >= 2.6.15 is required.
554 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work.
555 * On s390 and s390x, linux kernel >= 2.6.27 is required.
556 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGSET support will not work.
558 Noteworthy changes in release 4.9 (2014-08-15)
559 ==============================================
561 * Changes in behavior
562 * Disabled OABI support on ARM EABI systems by default,
563 added --enable-arm-oabi option to enable it at configure time.
566 * Added experimental -k option to print stack trace after each traced syscall.
567 * Added -w option to produce stats on syscall latency.
568 (addresses Debian bug #457497).
569 * Added ARC architecture support.
570 * Added PTRACE_GETREGS API support on PowerPC.
571 * Enhanced Bionic libc and musl libc support.
572 * Enhanced tracing of x86 personality processes on x86_64 and x32.
573 * Enhanced tracing of ARM personality processes on AArch64.
574 * Enhanced 32/64bit personality detection on PowerPC.
575 * Implemented decoding of add_key, ioprio_get, ioprio_set, kexec_load, keyctl,
576 renameat2, and request_key syscalls.
577 * Robustified decoding of select, pselect, and io_submit syscalls.
578 * Enhanced decoding of delete_module, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, fcntl,
579 setdomainname, sethostname, setns, and sync_file_range syscalls.
580 * Enhanced decoding of signal bitmasks.
581 * Enhanced decoding of file descriptors.
582 * Enhanced siginfo_t decoding.
583 * Enhanced PF_NETLINK decoding.
584 * Updated CLOCK_* constants
585 (addresses Fedora bug #1088455).
586 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.16.
589 * Added shmat and shmdt to the set of memory mapping related syscalls.
590 * Fixed detaching from stopped processes.
591 * Fixed fanotify_mark decoding on 32bit architectures.
592 * Fixed offset decoding in preadv and pwritev syscalls.
593 * Fixed select decoding for glibc in _FORTIFY_SOURCE mode.
594 * Fixed decoding of epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_DEL argument.
595 * Fixed build when <sys/ptrace.h> and <linux/ptrace.h> conflict
596 (addresses Fedora bug #993384).
597 * Miscellaneous corrections in the manual page.
598 (Addresses Debian bug #725987).
600 Noteworthy changes in release 4.8 (2013-06-03)
601 ==============================================
603 * Changes in behavior
604 * In case of normal strace termination, when the trace output is
605 redirected to a pipe, strace now closes it and waits for the pipe
606 process termination before exit.
609 * Implemented tracing using PTRACE_SEIZE API (when available).
610 * Implemented more reliable PTRACE_GETREGSET-based process personality
611 detection on x86-64 and x32 (when available).
612 * Added -e trace=memory option for tracing memory mapping related syscalls.
613 * Documented -b option.
614 * Allowed exit status messages to be suppressed by giving -q option twice.
615 * Added AArch64 architecture support
616 (addresses Debian bug #693074 and Fedora bug #969858).
617 * Added support for OpenRISC 1000, Meta, and Xtensa architectures.
618 * Added tilegx personality support for Tile.
619 * Enhanced support of NOMMU architectures.
620 * Enhanced decoding of getdents, mmap, perf_event_open, ptrace, and
622 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.9.
623 * Regenerated the list of common ioctl names from Linux 3.9.
624 * Updated the list of errno constants.
625 * Updated lists of AF_*, MADV_*, MAP_*, MSG_*, MS_*, PF_*, PR_*,
626 PTRACE_O_*, and TCP_* constants.
627 * Implemented decoding of UBI ioctls.
628 * Removed redundant "*32" ioctl names.
631 * Fixed ERESTARTNOINTR leaking to userspace on ancient kernels
632 (addresses Fedora bug #659382).
633 * Fixed kernel release string parsing
634 (addresses Debian bug #702309).
635 * Fixed decoding of *xattr syscalls
636 (addresses Fedora bug #885233).
637 * Fixed handling of files with 64-bit inode numbers by 32-bit strace
638 (addresses Fedora bug #912790).
639 * Fixed tracing forks on SPARC.
640 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, ftruncate64, io_submit, pread,
641 preadv, pwrite, pwritev, readahead, sigaltstack, sync_file_range, sysctl,
642 and truncate64 syscalls.
643 * Fixed categories of multiple syscalls on most of supported architectures.
644 * Fixed decoding of non-native 32-bit personality recv[m]msg syscalls.
645 * Fixed decoding of multiple 32-bit personality syscalls on x32.
646 * Fixed decoding of long long syscall arguments on ARM, MIPS/o32, PowerPC,
647 S390x, and Tile architectures.
648 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on S390x.
649 * Fixed sram_alloc decoding on Blackfin.
650 * Fixed build when process_vm_readv is a stab.
651 * Fixed build with older versions of libaio.h.
653 Noteworthy changes in release 4.7 (2012-05-02)
654 ==============================================
656 * Changes in behavior
657 * strace no longer suspends waitpid until there is a child
658 for waitpid'ing process to collect status from.
659 * strace no longer detaches from a tracee which is supposed
661 * strace now issues a new message: "+++ exited with EXITCODE +++"
662 which shows exact moment strace got exit notification,
663 analogous to existing "+++ killed by SIG +++" message.
666 * Added x32 personality support (x86_64 architecture).
667 * Added -y and -P options to print file descriptor paths and
668 filter by those paths.
669 * Added -I option to control strace interactivity.
670 * Allowed -p option to take comma or whitespace-separated list of PIDs.
671 * Added strace_log_merge script helper to merge timestamped "strace -ff"
673 * Implemented decoding of clock_adjtime, get_robust_list, migrate_pages,
674 preadv, prlimit64, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, pwritev,
675 recvmmsg, recvmsg, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sendmmsg, setns, set_robust_list,
676 sched_rr_get_interval, splice, syslog, tee and vmsplice syscalls.
677 * Enhanced decoding of capget, capset, getrlimit, flistxattr, io_submit,
678 listxattr, setrlimit and swapon syscalls.
679 * Implemented decoding of loop and mtd ioctls.
680 * Added syscall entries for new linux syscalls.
681 * Added syscall entries for direct socket system calls on powerpc.
682 * Updated the list of errno constants.
683 * Updated lists of MSG_*, STA_*, and TCP_* constants.
684 * Regenerated the list of ioctl names from Linux 3.3.
685 * Enhanced switching between processes with different personalities.
686 * Enhanced signals reporting by using short signal names.
687 * Made ERESTART* messages more descriptive.
688 * Made parsing of numbers from strings more robust.
689 * Added support for compat_statfs64 and statfs64.f_flags.
690 * Changed read of data blocks to use single process_vm_readv syscall
691 (when available) instead of several PTRACE_PEEKDATA operations.
692 * Changed read of registers on x86 and x86-64 to use single PTRACE_GETREGS
693 operation instead of several PTRACE_PEEKUSER operations.
694 * Applied various optimizations to make strace work faster.
697 * Implemented proper handling of real SIGTRAPs on kernels supporting
698 PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD.
699 (Addresses Fedora bug #162774).
700 * Fixed sockaddr_un.sun_path name in decoded output.
701 (Addresses Debian bug #554946).
702 * Fixed to avoid potential core file clobbering on exit.
703 (Addresses Debian bug #656398).
704 * Fixed a typo in documentation.
705 (Addresses Debian bug #653309).
706 * Fixed decoding of timer id returned by timer_create.
707 * Fixed epoll_create1, epoll_wait and epoll_pwait decoding.
708 * Fixed *at syscalls flags decoding.
709 * Fixed ARM EABI 64-bit syscall's arguments decoding.
710 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on s390.
711 * Fixed osf_sigprocmask decoding on alpha.
712 * Fixed ipc and socket subcall decoding on several architectures.
713 * Corrected syscall entries for epoll_pwait, epoll_create, epoll_ctl,
714 epoll_wait, mincore, mlockall, prctl, reboot, sendfile, sendfile64,
715 sendmsg, sgetmask, ssetmask, swapon, tgkill and tkill syscalls.
716 * Corrected io_* syscall entries on ARM.
717 * Fixed PID prefix printing in "strace -oLOG -ff -p1 -p2 -p3" case.
718 * Fixed logging of unfinished lines in "strace -oLOG -ff" case.
719 * Fixed build when libaio-devel is not available.
720 * Fixed configure checks for PTRACE_* constants.
721 * Fixed compilation warnings remained on several architectures.
724 * Removed all non-Linux code. After years of neglect, that dead code
725 just hampered further strace development.
726 * Linux kernel >= 2.6.18 is recommended. Older versions might still
727 work but they haven't been thoroughly tested with this release.
729 Noteworthy changes in release 4.6 (2011-03-15)
730 ==============================================
732 * Changes in behavior
733 * Print diagnostic information about changes in personality mode to
734 standard error instead of standard output.
737 * Implemented a new method of following clone, fork, and vfork
738 syscalls using the Linux kernel's explicit facilities for tracing
739 creation of threads and child processes.
740 * Implemented CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_UNTRACED flags handling.
741 * Implemented decoding of TLS syscalls on m68k.
742 * Implemented biarch support on powerpc64.
743 * Implemented biarch support for getrlimit() and setrlimit().
744 * Implemented decoding of struct ucred in getsockopt SO_PEERCRED.
745 * Implemented SOL_SCTP socket options decoding.
746 * Added HDIO_* ioctl names.
747 (Addresses Debian bug #450953).
748 * Added LOOP_* ioctl names.
749 * Updated lists of CLOCK_*, CLONE_*, MS_*, and SOL_* constants
750 to match Linux 2.6.37.
751 * Updated the list of IPPROTO_* constants to match netinet/in.h.
752 * Implemented decoding of HDIO_* and BLK* ioctls.
753 * Added MicroBlaze architecture support.
754 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 2.6.37.
755 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from Linux 2.6.37.
756 * Enhanced signal notification decoding.
757 * Documented -C and -D options.
760 * Fixed fetching syscall arguments on m68k.
761 * Fixed an error when judging whether a process has children.
762 * Fixed get/set_robust_list syscall numbers for powerpc.
763 * Fixed a corner case in printing clone flags.
764 * Fixed cross-compiling issues.
765 * Fixed build issues on powerpc64, SH and SPARC.
766 * Fixed syscall flags of fstatat*, mmap, mmap2, fadvise64*, swapoff,
767 fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, epoll_create, fallocate,
768 fanotify_init, and fanotify_mark syscalls.
769 * Fixed decoding of get[ug]id, gete[ug]id and setfs[ug]id return values.
770 * Fixed biarch support in IO dumping.
771 * Fixed raw exit_group decoding.
772 * Fixed decoding of file descriptors on 64-bit architectures.
773 * Fixed a corner case in waitpid handling.
774 (Addresses Red Hat bug #663547).
775 * Fixed stat64 decoding on mips
776 (Addresses Debian bug #599028).
777 * Fixed misleading italics in the manual page.
778 (Addresses Debian bug #589323).
780 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.20 (2010-04-13)
781 =================================================
784 * Implemented decoding of new linux syscalls: inotify_init1, recvmmsg.
785 * Implemented basic decoding of new linux syscalls: preadv, pwritev,
786 rt_tgsigqueueinfo, perf_event_open.
787 * Enhanced decoding of recently added syscalls on non-x86 architectures
788 by replacing a bare decoder with elaborate parsers enabled earlier
790 * Implemented -C option to combine regular and -c output.
791 (Addresses Debian bug #466196)
792 * Enhanced decoding of mbind and mremap syscalls.
793 * Enhanced SOL_PACKET socket options decoding.
794 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from linux 2.6.33.
795 * Added TILE architecture support.
798 * Fixed build with Linux kernel headers 2.6.32-rc5+.
799 (Addresses Debian bug #560516 and Fedora bug #539044)
800 * Fixed build on mips.
801 * Fixed handling of Linux systems without struct statfs64.
802 * Fixed reporting signal mask by sigreturn on powerpc.
803 * Fixed potential stack buffer overflow in select decoder.
804 (Addresses Fedora bug #556678)
805 * Corrected msgsnd indirect ipccall decoding.
806 * Corrected decoding of 64bit syscalls.
807 (Addresses Debian bug #570603)
808 * Corrected getsockopt decoding on architectures where
809 sizeof(long) > sizeof(int).
810 (Addresses Debian bug #494844)
811 * Corrected decoding of epoll_pwait.
812 (Addresses Debian bug #513014)
813 * Corrected handling of killed threads.
815 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.19 (2009-10-21)
816 =================================================
818 * Changes in behavior
819 * When command exits, strace now exits with the same exit status.
820 If command is terminated by a signal, strace terminates itself
821 with the same signal, so that strace can be used as a wrapper
822 process transparent to the invoking parent process.
823 When using -p option, the exit status of strace is zero unless
824 there was an unexpected error in doing the tracing.
825 (Addresses Fedora bug #105371 and Debian bug #37665)
828 * Implemented decoding of new Linux syscalls: accept4, dup3,
829 epoll_create1, eventfd2, inotify_init1, pipe2, signalfd4.
830 * Implemented decoding of socket type flags introduced in Linux 2.6.27.
831 * Implemented decoding of accept4 socketcall.
832 * Enhanced prctl decoding.
833 * Enhanced nanosleep decoding.
834 * Enhanced ptrace decoding.
835 * Enhanced futex decoding.
836 * Enhanced CAP_* decoding.
837 * Enhanced SIOCS* ioctls decoding.
838 * Enhanced fcntl F_* flags decoding.
839 * Enhanced semop/semtimedop decoding.
840 * Updated ARM architecture support.
841 * Added Blackfin architecture support.
842 * Added AVR32 architecture support.
843 * Added CRIS architecture support.
844 * Made strace detect when traced process suddenly disappeared.
847 * Fixed syscall numbers for tee and sync_file_range.
848 (Addresses Debian bug #503124)
849 * Fixed several bugs in strings decoder, including potential heap
851 (Addresses Fedora bugs #470529, #478324 and #511035)
852 * Marked sendfile(2) as a network syscall.
853 (Addresses Debian bug #509499)
854 * Fixed accept(2) decoding.
855 (Addresses Debian bug #507573)
856 * Fixed sigtimedwait(2) decoding.
857 * Fixed build on ARM EABI.
858 (Addresses Debian bugs #520084 and #535564, and Fedora bug #507576)
859 * Fixed display of 32-bit fcntl(F_SETLK) on 64-bit architectures.
860 (Addresses Red Hat bug #471169)
861 * Fixed display of 32-bit argv array on 64-bit architectures.
862 (Addresses Fedora bug #519480)
863 * Fixed display of 32-bit struct sigaction on 64-bit architectures.
864 * Fixed HPPA architecture support.
865 (Addresses Debian bugs #437928 and #546619)
870 * Support new Linux/PPC system call subpage_prot and PROT_SAO flag.
871 * In sigaction system call, display sa_flags value along with SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
876 * -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now.
877 * Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits.
878 * Improved output for prctl system call on Linux.
879 * Improved support for Linux/ARM.
880 * SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND.
885 * Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux.
886 * Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux.
887 * Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd,
888 eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait.
893 * Several biarch improvements.
894 * Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
895 * Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
900 * Accept numeric system calls in -e.
905 * Introduce "-e trace=desc".
910 * Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
911 * Update PowerPC system calls.
912 * Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
916 * Quick fix release for build issues.
917 * One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
922 * Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
927 * Improve socket ioctl printing.
928 * Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
929 * Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
930 * Improve mount flags printing.
931 * Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
936 * Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
937 * Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
938 * Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
939 * Improve ioctl command name matching.
940 * Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
941 * Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
942 * Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
947 * Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
948 * Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
949 * Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
950 * Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
954 * Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
955 * David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
963 * Update Linux ioctl lists.
964 * Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
965 * The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
970 * On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
971 * Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
976 * Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
977 * Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
982 * Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
986 * New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
987 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
988 * Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
989 * New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
990 * Merged s390/s390x port.
991 * Trace an unbounded number of processes.
992 * Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
993 * Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
994 * Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
995 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
996 * Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
997 * Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
998 * Many other bug fixes.
1002 * Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
1003 * Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
1004 Improve the ioctl extractor as well so we decode some more ones.
1008 * compile fixes for Linux/mips
1012 * Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
1013 * The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
1014 * Linux ioctl list updated
1015 * Support IPv6 scope ids
1016 * FreeBSD/i386 port added
1017 * UnixWare and Solaris updates
1018 * Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
1022 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
1023 * Linux/S390 port added
1024 * The usual Linux syscall updates
1025 * we can follow fork on arm now
1029 * Linux/MIPS port added
1030 * Lots of Linux updates again
1031 * Improved IPv6 support
1037 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
1041 * Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
1042 * Personalities work again
1043 * Compile correctly on SunOS again
1049 * Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
1056 * add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
1057 * support lots more Linux syscalls
1058 * fix signal handling
1059 * add IPX and IPIP support
1060 * check stray syscall after execv
1061 * fix hanging children
1063 Changes in version 3.1
1064 ======================
1066 * Irix5 is supported
1067 * Linux 68k is supported
1068 * Linux alpha is supported
1069 * configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
1070 * using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
1071 * output can be piped to a program
1072 * tracing setuid programs works better
1073 * it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
1074 * new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
1075 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
1076 take a file name as an argument
1077 * IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
1078 * Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
1079 * Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
1080 * various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
1082 Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
1083 ========================================
1085 * filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
1086 * string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
1087 * preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
1088 * by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
1089 * all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
1090 * the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
1092 New Features in version 3.0
1093 ===========================
1095 * non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
1096 * the output format is readable when multiple processes are generating output
1097 * exit values are printed in an alignment column
1098 * is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
1099 * various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
1100 * selective tracing of syscalls
1101 * selective printing of syscall structures
1102 * selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
1103 * selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
1104 * selective tracing of signals
1105 * selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
1106 * selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
1107 * optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall
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