1 Noteworthy changes in release ?.?? (????-??-??)
2 ===============================================
4 * Changes in command line syntax
5 * Syscall classes specified in -e trace= option now have % prefix (like
6 -e trace=%process). Old style class names without leading % are still
7 supported, but considered deprecated now.
10 * Optimized syscall filtering.
11 * Enhanced decoding of sched_setattr syscall.
12 * Added -e trace=%statfs option for tracing statfs, statfs64 and statvfs
14 * Added -e trace=/regex option for filtering syscalls using regular
16 * Implemented decoding of signal mask in rt_sigreturn syscall on alpha, arc,
17 arm, avr32, bfin, cris, hppa, m68k, metag, microblaze, mips, nios2, or1k,
18 powerpc, powerpc64, riscv, sh, sh64, sparc, sparc64, tile, x86, and xtensa
20 * Implemented decoding of statx syscall.
21 * Implemented decoding of NS_* ioctl commands.
22 * Implemented decoding of the remaining V4L2_BUF_TYPE_* types.
23 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.11.
26 * Fixed decoding of flags argument of preadv2 and pwritev2 syscalls on x32.
28 Noteworthy changes in release 4.16 (2017-02-14)
29 ===============================================
32 * Implemented syscall return value injection (-e inject=SET:retval= option).
33 * Implemented signal injection (-e inject=SET:signal= option).
34 * Implemented decoding of SUID_DUMP_* constants in PR_[GS]ET_DUMPABLE.
35 * Implemented decoding of all SG_* ioctl commands.
36 * Implemented decoding of ustat syscall.
37 * Implemented decoding of BPF_OBJ_PIN, BPF_OBJ_GET, BPF_PROG_ATTACH,
38 and BPF_PROG_DETACH commands of bpf syscall.
39 * Enhanced decoding of sg_io_hdr and sg_io_v4 structures.
40 * Enhanced decoding of get_robust_list, getrandom, io_submit, set_robust_list
42 * Enhanced decoding of entities of kernel long type on x32 and mips n32 ABIs.
43 * Updated lists of IP_*, IPV6_*, and LOOP_* constants.
44 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.10.
45 * Added decoding of recently added syscalls on avr32, microblaze, ppc,
49 * Fixed pathmatch of oldselect syscall on 64-bit architectures.
50 * Fixed decoding of mmap2 syscall on s390 when arguments are not available.
51 * Fixed decoding of kexec_file_load, mprotect, pkey_mprotect, prctl, preadv*,
52 and pwritev* syscalls on x32.
53 * Fixed printing of string arguments of getxattr and setxattr syscalls
54 when -s option is used to limit the printed string size.
55 * Fixed decoding of ifconf, ifreq, and loop_info structures on non-native
57 * Fixed decoding of SG_* and LOOP_* ioctl commands.
58 * Fixed build on mips with musl libc.
59 * Fixed cross-building of ioctlsort.
60 * Applied minor formatting fixes to the manual page.
62 Noteworthy changes in release 4.15 (2016-12-14)
63 ===============================================
66 * Time stamps are now printed according to ISO 8601.
67 * Changed output format of val3 parameter of futex FUTEX_WAKE_OP operation.
68 * The last argument of mincore, sched_getaffinity, and sched_setaffinity
69 syscalls is now formatted as an array.
72 * Implemented syscall fault injection (-e fault=... option).
73 * Implemented decoding of DM_* ioctl commands.
74 * Implemented decoding of attr parameter of perf_event_open syscall.
75 * Implemented decoding of pkey_alloc, pkey_free, and pkey_mprotect syscalls.
76 * Implemented dumping of mq_timedsend and mq_timedreceive syscalls.
77 * Implemented decoding of PR_SET_FP_MODE and PR_GET_FP_MODE operations
79 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on m68k.
80 * Updated lists of ARCH_*, BPF_*, BTRFS_*, FALLOC_*, MS_*, *_MAGIC,
82 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.9.
83 * Added decoding of recently added syscalls on arc, x32, and xtensa.
84 * Enhanced manual page.
87 * Fixed corner cases in decoding of exit, exit_group, futimesat, getgroups,
88 getresuid, init_module, inotify_init1, kcmp, kexec_load, lookup_dcookie,
89 mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_open, mq_timedreceive, mq_timedsend,
90 name_to_handle_at, prctl, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, setfsuid,
91 setgroups, setns, unshare, and utimes syscalls.
92 * Fixed handling of verbose flag in printing of controls array
93 of struct v4l2_ext_controls.
94 * Fixed omission of field names in the output of capability, sigaction,
95 sigevent, statfs, timespec, timeval, and utimbuf structures.
96 * Fixed printing of unknown syscalls in siginfo structure.
97 * Fixed decoding of ioctl constants on m68k.
98 * Fixed cris architecture support.
99 * Fixed cross build when host compiler does not support the same
100 set of warning flags as the cross compiler.
101 * Fixed build on SLE10 and SLE11.
103 Noteworthy changes in release 4.14 (2016-10-04)
104 ===============================================
106 * Changes in behavior
107 * When using -p option without a command and no processes has been attached,
108 strace exits with exit status 1.
111 * Added printing of the mode argument of open and openat syscalls
112 when O_TMPFILE flag is set. (Addresses Fedora bug #1377846).
113 * Enhanced -e abbrev=set, -e raw=set, and -e verbose=set.
114 * Enhanced decoding of futex, keyctl, quotactl, timerfd_settime,
115 and aio family syscalls.
116 * Implemented fetching of the 7th subcall argument on mips o32.
117 * Updated lists of BPF_*, ETH_P_*, KEXEC_ARCH_*, SCTP_*, TCP_*, and *_MAGIC
119 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.8.
120 * Added decoding of new syscalls on sh and sh64.
121 * Added RISC-V architecture support.
124 * Marked io_setup and io_destroy as memory mapping related syscalls.
125 * Fixed leakage of placeholder descriptors to tracees.
126 * Fixed printing of mode_t, umode_t, and umask types.
127 * Fixed decoding of iovec arrays without a limit on total data size.
128 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, futex, keyctl, quotactl, readahead,
129 and ipc family syscalls.
130 * Fixed decoding of invalid syscalls mapped to indirect subcalls.
131 * Fixed decoding of struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args_v2 on non-native
133 * Fixed decoding of PTRACE_DETACH on sparc and sparc64.
134 * Fixed decoding of struct stat64 on sparc64.
135 * Fixed decoding of uid and gid-related syscalls on sparc64.
136 * Fixed decoding of the forth argument of semctl syscall on sparc64.
137 * Fixed values of tty ioctl constants on sparc64.
138 * Fixed sparc personality support on sparc64.
140 Noteworthy changes in release 4.13 (2016-07-26)
141 ===============================================
144 * Implemented a general netlink socket parser.
145 * Enhanced decoding of socket addresses.
146 * Enhanced decoding of cmsghdr, msghdr, and mmsghdr structures.
147 * Enhanced decoding of accept, accept4, bind, getpeername, getsockname,
148 ipc, recvfrom, recvmsg, recvmmsg, sendto, sendmmsg, and socketcall syscalls.
149 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, KEY_*, KEYCTL_*, RWF_*, SS_*,
150 and *_MAGIC constants.
151 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.7.
154 * Fixed decoding of pid_t argument of prlimit64 syscall.
155 * Fixed sign extension issues in the parser of struct rusage.
156 * Fixed race condition in decoding of timeout argument of recvmmsg and
157 rt_sigtimedwait syscalls.
158 * Fixed build with fresh linux kernel headers.
160 Noteworthy changes in release 4.12 (2016-05-31)
161 ===============================================
164 * Implemented simultaneous use of -p option and tracing of a command.
165 (addresses Debian bug #549942).
166 * Implemented caching of netlink conversations to reduce amount of time
167 spent in decoding socket details in -yy mode.
168 * Implemented -yy mode decoding of protocol:portid pairs associated with
169 netlink socket descriptors.
170 * Implemented decoding of copy_file_range, preadv2, and pwritev2 syscalls.
171 * Implemented dumping of preadv, preadv2, pwritev, pwritev2, and vmsplice
173 * Implemented decoding of BTRFS_* and UFFDIO_* ioctl commands.
174 * Enhanced decoding of BLK*, EVIOC*, RTC_*, and VIDIOC_* ioctl commands.
175 * Enhanced decoding of fstatfs, fstatfs64, get_mempolicy, getdents,
176 getdents64, getgroups, getpriority, kill, mbind, migrate_pages, mknod,
177 mknodat, personality, poll, ppoll, quotactl, rt_sigpending,
178 rt_sigqueueinfo, rt_sigtimedwait, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sched_getaffinity,
179 sched_setaffinity, seccomp, set_mempolicy, setgroups, setpriority, statfs,
180 statfs64, tgkill, waitid, and xattr family syscalls.
181 * Enhanced decoding of getxpid, getxuid, and getxgid syscalls on alpha.
182 * Enhanced decoding of pipe syscall on alpha, ia64, mips, sh, and sparc.
183 * Added decoding of bind, listen, and setsockopt direct syscalls on sparc.
184 * Added decoding of osf_statfs64 and osf_fstatfs64 syscalls on alpha.
185 * Added decoding of fadvise64 and fadvise64_64 on s390.
186 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, CLONE_*, EPOLL*, IPV6_*, MADV_*,
187 MSG_*, PTRACE_*, SEGV_*, SO_*, SOL_*, *_MAGIC, and quotactl constants.
188 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.6.
191 * Fixed build on arc, metag, nios2, or1k, and tile architectures.
192 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit times syscall return value on 64-bit architectures.
193 * Fixed decoding of mlock2 syscall on sparc.
194 * Fixed decoding of osf_shmat syscall on alpha.
195 * Fixed decoding of syscalls unknown to the kernel on s390/s390x.
196 (addresses Debian bug #485979 and Fedora bug #1298294).
197 * Fixed decoding of preadv syscall in case of short read.
198 * Fixed decoding and dumping of readv syscall in case of short read.
199 * Fixed dumping of recvmsg and recvmmsg syscalls in case of short read.
200 * Fixed decoding of mincore syscall's last argument.
201 * Fixed remaining errors in mapping between syscall numbers and numbers
202 of syscall arguments.
203 * Applied various fixes to strace-graph script.
205 Noteworthy changes in release 4.11 (2015-12-21)
206 ===============================================
208 * Changes in behavior
209 * Some syscalls have different names depending on architecture and
210 personality. In these cases, syscall filtering and printing now
211 consistently uses the names that match corresponding __NR_* kernel
212 macros of the tracee's architecture and personality.
213 * Added strace prefix to all diagnostic messages.
216 * Enhanced and extended test suite.
217 * Implemented reliable tracing of processes whose personality differs
218 from the personality of strace, fixed decoding of 32-bit personality
219 syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
220 * When some data referenced by syscall arguments is irrelevant or cannot
221 be read from tracee's memory, strace now prints its address consistently.
222 * When a syscall is restarted using restart_syscall mechanism, strace now
223 shows the syscall name on architectures that expose this information.
224 * Print values returned by epoll_create1, eventfd, eventfd2, fanotify_init,
225 inotify_init1, perf_event_open, pipe, pipe2, signalfd, signalfd4, socket,
226 socketpair, timerfd, and timerfd_create syscalls, as well as F_DUPFD and
227 F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC fcntl commands, as file descriptors.
228 * Optimized decoding of indirect socket syscalls.
229 * Implemented decoding of nanoseconds along with seconds in stat family
230 syscalls (addresses Fedora bug #1251176).
231 * Implemented decoding of struct statfs.f_flags in statfs syscall.
232 * Implemented decoding of siginfo_t.si_syscall and siginfo_t.si_arch
234 * Implemented decoding of indirect syscall on mips o32.
235 * Implemented decoding of IPPROTO_IP control messages.
236 * Implemented decoding of setsockopt syscall multicast arguments.
237 * Enhanced decoding of struct sigevent.
238 * Enhanced decoding of block, loop, mtd, ptp, rtc, SG_IO, socket, tty,
239 and v4l2 ioctl syscall arguments.
240 * Enhanced decoding of epoll_create, fcntl, fcntl64, futex, getdents,
241 getdents64, getsockopt, io_*, mount, msgctl, prctl, quotactl, recvfrom,
242 sendfile, setsockopt, and shmctl syscalls.
243 * Implemented decoding of bpf, execveat, ioperm, iopl, kcmp, kexec_file_load,
244 lookup_dcookie, membarrier, memfd_create, mlock2, name_to_handle_at,
245 open_by_handle_at, sched_getattr, sched_setattr, and userfaultfd syscalls.
246 * Updated lists of AF_*, EPOLL_*, FALLOC_FL_*, F_*, INPUT_PROP_*, IPPROTO_*,
247 IPV6_*, IP_*, KEY_*, LOCK_*, MNT_*, MS_*, PACKET_*, PERF_FLAG_*, PF_*,
248 PR_*, PTRACE_O_*, RENAME_*, SCTP_*, SECBIT_*, SO_*, TCP_*, and siginfo_t
250 * Added Nios II architecture support.
251 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 4.4.
254 * Fixed potential short read of strings from tracee's memory.
255 * Fixed -qq option in conjunction with -o option.
256 * Fixed filtering of <unavailable> syscalls.
257 * Fixed decoding of ioctl syscall command on aarch64 and 32-bit architectures
258 with 64-bit aligned structures.
259 * Fixed decoding of eventfd2, epoll_create1, signalfd4, and sync_file_range2
260 syscall flags arguments.
261 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of clock_nanosleep syscall.
262 * Fixed decoding of getpagesize syscall on m68k.
263 * Fixed decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls on aarch64.
264 * Fixed decoding of timezone argument of gettimeofday and settimeofday
266 * Fixed decoding of offset argument of mmap2 syscall on arm, sparc,
268 * Fixed decoding of pipe syscall on alpha and mips.
269 * Fixed decoding of pipe2 syscall on ia64, sh, sparc, and sparc64.
270 * Fixed decoding of signal mask argument of pselect6 syscall on x32.
271 * Fixed decoding of signal mask of rt_sigreturn syscall on aarch64, m68k,
273 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of semctl indirect syscall.
274 * Fixed decoding of sa_restorer and sa_mask of sigaction syscall on m68k.
275 * Fixed decoding of statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls on arm eabi.
276 * Fixed decoding of struct dirent on x32.
277 * Fixed decoding of times syscall return value on mips n32 and x32.
278 * Fixed decoding of path argument of umount2 syscall
279 (addresses Debian bug #785050).
280 * Worked around a kernel bug in tracing privileged executables.
281 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
282 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
285 Noteworthy changes in release 4.10 (2015-03-06)
286 ===============================================
289 * Added -yy option to print protocol and address information associated with
291 * Extended "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" options to cover sendmsg,
292 recvmsg, sendmmsg, and recvmmsg syscalls.
293 * Implemented full 32-bit decoding of ioctl commands
294 (addresses Debian bug #692913 and Fedora bug #902788).
295 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on ia64.
296 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on mips.
297 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGSET API support on s390/s390x.
298 * Implemented decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls.
299 * Implemented full decoding of 64-bit capability sets.
300 * Implemented decoding of all prctl commands.
301 * Implemented decoding of parametrized ioctl commands.
302 * Implemented decoding of evdev ioctl commands.
303 * Implemented decoding of v4l ioctl commands.
304 * Implemented decoding of SG_IO v4 ioctl commands.
305 * Implemented decoding of FIFREEZE/FITHAW/FITRIM ioctl commands.
306 * Implemented decoding of FALLOC_FL_* fallocate flags.
307 * Implemented decoding of rt_sigreturn signal mask on aarch64,
309 * Enhanced socket decoder to support bluetooth sockets.
310 * Enhanced decoding of unlisted ioctl commands.
311 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscall.
312 * Enhanced decoding of sysinfo syscall.
313 * Enhanced decoding of struct cmsghdr.
314 * Enhanced decoding of wait status.
315 * Enhanced aio support on non-x86 architectures by using external libaio.h.
316 * Added O_TMPFILE to the list of recognized open mode flags.
317 * Updated the list of filesystem type constants that is used in decoding
318 statfs family syscalls.
319 * Updated lists of CAP_*, PR_*, PTRACE_*, SCHED_*, SO_*, SOL_*, SWAP_FLAG_*,
321 * Updated lists of signal constants from Linux 3.19.
322 * Updated lists of errno constants from Linux 3.19.
323 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 3.9.
324 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.19.
327 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
328 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
330 * Fixed quoting issues in printing descriptors, filenames, network interface
331 names, struct utsname members, device/volume names of BLK* ioctl commands.
332 * Fixed uid_t/git_t decoding.
333 * Fixed potential out-of-bounds read issues in getdents/getdents64 decoders.
334 * Fixed potential open flags truncation on some architectures.
335 * Fixed decoding of struct ifreq.ifr_name.
336 * Fixed decoding of SIOCSIFNAME ioctl command.
337 * Fixed decoding of RENAME_* renameat2 flags.
338 * Fixed decoding of UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT timeval structures.
339 * Fixed decoding of indirect ipc subcalls on some architectures.
340 * Fixed decoding of fanotify_mark syscall on 32-bit architectures.
341 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit stat structures on 64-bit architectures.
342 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit struct cmsghdr on 64-bit architectures.
343 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit preadv/pwritev offset on 64-bit architectures.
344 * Fixed decoding of sigreturn/rt_sigreturn signal mask on ia64, ppc, ppc64,
345 sparc, sparc64, mips, and s390.
346 * Fixed instruction pointer output (-i option) on architectures that support
347 several personalities.
348 * Fixed behaviour of "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" when read and write
350 * Fixed build on systems where struct sigaction has no sa_restorer member.
351 * Fixed build with uclibc and musl libc.
354 * Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required.
355 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_SETOPTIONS support will not work.
356 * On mips, linux kernel >= 2.6.15 is required.
357 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work.
358 * On s390 and s390x, linux kernel >= 2.6.27 is required.
359 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGSET support will not work.
361 Noteworthy changes in release 4.9 (2014-08-15)
362 ==============================================
364 * Changes in behavior
365 * Disabled OABI support on ARM EABI systems by default,
366 added --enable-arm-oabi option to enable it at configure time.
369 * Added experimental -k option to print stack trace after each traced syscall.
370 * Added -w option to produce stats on syscall latency.
371 (addresses Debian bug #457497).
372 * Added ARC architecture support.
373 * Added PTRACE_GETREGS API support on PowerPC.
374 * Enhanced Bionic libc and musl libc support.
375 * Enhanced tracing of x86 personality processes on x86_64 and x32.
376 * Enhanced tracing of ARM personality processes on AArch64.
377 * Enhanced 32/64bit personality detection on PowerPC.
378 * Implemented decoding of add_key, ioprio_get, ioprio_set, kexec_load, keyctl,
379 renameat2, and request_key syscalls.
380 * Robustified decoding of select, pselect, and io_submit syscalls.
381 * Enhanced decoding of delete_module, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, fcntl,
382 setdomainname, sethostname, setns, and sync_file_range syscalls.
383 * Enhanced decoding of signal bitmasks.
384 * Enhanced decoding of file descriptors.
385 * Enhanced siginfo_t decoding.
386 * Enhanced PF_NETLINK decoding.
387 * Updated CLOCK_* constants
388 (addresses Fedora bug #1088455).
389 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.16.
392 * Added shmat and shmdt to the set of memory mapping related syscalls.
393 * Fixed detaching from stopped processes.
394 * Fixed fanotify_mark decoding on 32bit architectures.
395 * Fixed offset decoding in preadv and pwritev syscalls.
396 * Fixed select decoding for glibc in _FORTIFY_SOURCE mode.
397 * Fixed decoding of epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_DEL argument.
398 * Fixed build when <sys/ptrace.h> and <linux/ptrace.h> conflict
399 (addresses Fedora bug #993384).
400 * Miscellaneous corrections in the manual page.
401 (Addresses Debian bug #725987).
403 Noteworthy changes in release 4.8 (2013-06-03)
404 ==============================================
406 * Changes in behavior
407 * In case of normal strace termination, when the trace output is
408 redirected to a pipe, strace now closes it and waits for the pipe
409 process termination before exit.
412 * Implemented tracing using PTRACE_SEIZE API (when available).
413 * Implemented more reliable PTRACE_GETREGSET-based process personality
414 detection on x86-64 and x32 (when available).
415 * Added -e trace=memory option for tracing memory mapping related syscalls.
416 * Documented -b option.
417 * Allowed exit status messages to be suppressed by giving -q option twice.
418 * Added AArch64 architecture support
419 (addresses Debian bug #693074 and Fedora bug #969858).
420 * Added support for OpenRISC 1000, Meta, and Xtensa architectures.
421 * Added tilegx personality support for Tile.
422 * Enhanced support of NOMMU architectures.
423 * Enhanced decoding of getdents, mmap, perf_event_open, ptrace, and
425 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.9.
426 * Regenerated the list of common ioctl names from Linux 3.9.
427 * Updated the list of errno constants.
428 * Updated lists of AF_*, MADV_*, MAP_*, MSG_*, MS_*, PF_*, PR_*,
429 PTRACE_O_*, and TCP_* constants.
430 * Implemented decoding of UBI ioctls.
431 * Removed redundant "*32" ioctl names.
434 * Fixed ERESTARTNOINTR leaking to userspace on ancient kernels
435 (addresses Fedora bug #659382).
436 * Fixed kernel release string parsing
437 (addresses Debian bug #702309).
438 * Fixed decoding of *xattr syscalls
439 (addresses Fedora bug #885233).
440 * Fixed handling of files with 64-bit inode numbers by 32-bit strace
441 (addresses Fedora bug #912790).
442 * Fixed tracing forks on SPARC.
443 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, ftruncate64, io_submit, pread,
444 preadv, pwrite, pwritev, readahead, sigaltstack, sync_file_range, sysctl,
445 and truncate64 syscalls.
446 * Fixed categories of multiple syscalls on most of supported architectures.
447 * Fixed decoding of non-native 32-bit personality recv[m]msg syscalls.
448 * Fixed decoding of multiple 32-bit personality syscalls on x32.
449 * Fixed decoding of long long syscall arguments on ARM, MIPS/o32, PowerPC,
450 S390x, and Tile architectures.
451 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on S390x.
452 * Fixed sram_alloc decoding on Blackfin.
453 * Fixed build when process_vm_readv is a stab.
454 * Fixed build with older versions of libaio.h.
456 Noteworthy changes in release 4.7 (2012-05-02)
457 ==============================================
459 * Changes in behavior
460 * strace no longer suspends waitpid until there is a child
461 for waitpid'ing process to collect status from.
462 * strace no longer detaches from a tracee which is supposed
464 * strace now issues a new message: "+++ exited with EXITCODE +++"
465 which shows exact moment strace got exit notification,
466 analogous to existing "+++ killed by SIG +++" message.
469 * Added x32 personality support (x86_64 architecture).
470 * Added -y and -P options to print file descriptor paths and
471 filter by those paths.
472 * Added -I option to control strace interactivity.
473 * Allowed -p option to take comma or whitespace-separated list of PIDs.
474 * Added strace_log_merge script helper to merge timestamped "strace -ff"
476 * Implemented decoding of clock_adjtime, get_robust_list, migrate_pages,
477 preadv, prlimit64, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, pwritev,
478 recvmmsg, recvmsg, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sendmmsg, setns, set_robust_list,
479 sched_rr_get_interval, splice, syslog, tee and vmsplice syscalls.
480 * Enhanced decoding of capget, capset, getrlimit, flistxattr, io_submit,
481 listxattr, setrlimit and swapon syscalls.
482 * Implemented decoding of loop and mtd ioctls.
483 * Added syscall entries for new linux syscalls.
484 * Added syscall entries for direct socket system calls on powerpc.
485 * Updated the list of errno constants.
486 * Updated lists of MSG_*, STA_*, and TCP_* constants.
487 * Regenerated the list of ioctl names from Linux 3.3.
488 * Enhanced switching between processes with different personalities.
489 * Enhanced signals reporting by using short signal names.
490 * Made ERESTART* messages more descriptive.
491 * Made parsing of numbers from strings more robust.
492 * Added support for compat_statfs64 and statfs64.f_flags.
493 * Changed read of data blocks to use single process_vm_readv syscall
494 (when available) instead of several PTRACE_PEEKDATA operations.
495 * Changed read of registers on x86 and x86-64 to use single PTRACE_GETREGS
496 operation instead of several PTRACE_PEEKUSER operations.
497 * Applied various optimizations to make strace work faster.
500 * Implemented proper handling of real SIGTRAPs on kernels supporting
501 PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD.
502 (Addresses Fedora bug #162774).
503 * Fixed sockaddr_un.sun_path name in decoded output.
504 (Addresses Debian bug #554946).
505 * Fixed to avoid potential core file clobbering on exit.
506 (Addresses Debian bug #656398).
507 * Fixed a typo in documentation.
508 (Addresses Debian bug #653309).
509 * Fixed decoding of timer id returned by timer_create.
510 * Fixed epoll_create1, epoll_wait and epoll_pwait decoding.
511 * Fixed *at syscalls flags decoding.
512 * Fixed ARM EABI 64-bit syscall's arguments decoding.
513 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on s390.
514 * Fixed osf_sigprocmask decoding on alpha.
515 * Fixed ipc and socket subcall decoding on several architectures.
516 * Corrected syscall entries for epoll_pwait, epoll_create, epoll_ctl,
517 epoll_wait, mincore, mlockall, prctl, reboot, sendfile, sendfile64,
518 sendmsg, sgetmask, ssetmask, swapon, tgkill and tkill syscalls.
519 * Corrected io_* syscall entries on ARM.
520 * Fixed PID prefix printing in "strace -oLOG -ff -p1 -p2 -p3" case.
521 * Fixed logging of unfinished lines in "strace -oLOG -ff" case.
522 * Fixed build when libaio-devel is not available.
523 * Fixed configure checks for PTRACE_* constants.
524 * Fixed compilation warnings remained on several architectures.
527 * Removed all non-Linux code. After years of neglect, that dead code
528 just hampered further strace development.
529 * Linux kernel >= 2.6.18 is recommended. Older versions might still
530 work but they haven't been thoroughly tested with this release.
532 Noteworthy changes in release 4.6 (2011-03-15)
533 ==============================================
535 * Changes in behavior
536 * Print diagnostic information about changes in personality mode to
537 standard error instead of standard output.
540 * Implemented a new method of following clone, fork, and vfork
541 syscalls using the Linux kernel's explicit facilities for tracing
542 creation of threads and child processes.
543 * Implemented CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_UNTRACED flags handling.
544 * Implemented decoding of TLS syscalls on m68k.
545 * Implemented biarch support on powerpc64.
546 * Implemented biarch support for getrlimit() and setrlimit().
547 * Implemented decoding of struct ucred in getsockopt SO_PEERCRED.
548 * Implemented SOL_SCTP socket options decoding.
549 * Added HDIO_* ioctl names.
550 (Addresses Debian bug #450953).
551 * Added LOOP_* ioctl names.
552 * Updated lists of CLOCK_*, CLONE_*, MS_*, and SOL_* constants
553 to match Linux 2.6.37.
554 * Updated the list of IPPROTO_* constants to match netinet/in.h.
555 * Implemented decoding of HDIO_* and BLK* ioctls.
556 * Added MicroBlaze architecture support.
557 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 2.6.37.
558 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from Linux 2.6.37.
559 * Enhanced signal notification decoding.
560 * Documented -C and -D options.
563 * Fixed fetching syscall arguments on m68k.
564 * Fixed an error when judging whether a process has children.
565 * Fixed get/set_robust_list syscall numbers for powerpc.
566 * Fixed a corner case in printing clone flags.
567 * Fixed cross-compiling issues.
568 * Fixed build issues on powerpc64, SH and SPARC.
569 * Fixed syscall flags of fstatat*, mmap, mmap2, fadvise64*, swapoff,
570 fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, epoll_create, fallocate,
571 fanotify_init, and fanotify_mark syscalls.
572 * Fixed decoding of get[ug]id, gete[ug]id and setfs[ug]id return values.
573 * Fixed biarch support in IO dumping.
574 * Fixed raw exit_group decoding.
575 * Fixed decoding of file descriptors on 64-bit architectures.
576 * Fixed a corner case in waitpid handling.
577 (Addresses Red Hat bug #663547).
578 * Fixed stat64 decoding on mips
579 (Addresses Debian bug #599028).
580 * Fixed misleading italics in the manual page.
581 (Addresses Debian bug #589323).
583 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.20 (2010-04-13)
584 =================================================
587 * Implemented decoding of new linux syscalls: inotify_init1, recvmmsg.
588 * Implemented basic decoding of new linux syscalls: preadv, pwritev,
589 rt_tgsigqueueinfo, perf_event_open.
590 * Enhanced decoding of recently added syscalls on non-x86 architectures
591 by replacing a bare decoder with elaborate parsers enabled earlier
593 * Implemented -C option to combine regular and -c output.
594 (Addresses Debian bug #466196)
595 * Enhanced decoding of mbind and mremap syscalls.
596 * Enhanced SOL_PACKET socket options decoding.
597 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from linux 2.6.33.
598 * Added TILE architecture support.
601 * Fixed build with Linux kernel headers 2.6.32-rc5+.
602 (Addresses Debian bug #560516 and Fedora bug #539044)
603 * Fixed build on mips.
604 * Fixed handling of Linux systems without struct statfs64.
605 * Fixed reporting signal mask by sigreturn on powerpc.
606 * Fixed potential stack buffer overflow in select decoder.
607 (Addresses Fedora bug #556678)
608 * Corrected msgsnd indirect ipccall decoding.
609 * Corrected decoding of 64bit syscalls.
610 (Addresses Debian bug #570603)
611 * Corrected getsockopt decoding on architectures where
612 sizeof(long) > sizeof(int).
613 (Addresses Debian bug #494844)
614 * Corrected decoding of epoll_pwait.
615 (Addresses Debian bug #513014)
616 * Corrected handling of killed threads.
618 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.19 (2009-10-21)
619 =================================================
621 * Changes in behavior
622 * When command exits, strace now exits with the same exit status.
623 If command is terminated by a signal, strace terminates itself
624 with the same signal, so that strace can be used as a wrapper
625 process transparent to the invoking parent process.
626 When using -p option, the exit status of strace is zero unless
627 there was an unexpected error in doing the tracing.
628 (Addresses Fedora bug #105371 and Debian bug #37665)
631 * Implemented decoding of new Linux syscalls: accept4, dup3,
632 epoll_create1, eventfd2, inotify_init1, pipe2, signalfd4.
633 * Implemented decoding of socket type flags introduced in Linux 2.6.27.
634 * Implemented decoding of accept4 socketcall.
635 * Enhanced prctl decoding.
636 * Enhanced nanosleep decoding.
637 * Enhanced ptrace decoding.
638 * Enhanced futex decoding.
639 * Enhanced CAP_* decoding.
640 * Enhanced SIOCS* ioctls decoding.
641 * Enhanced fcntl F_* flags decoding.
642 * Enhanced semop/semtimedop decoding.
643 * Updated ARM architecture support.
644 * Added Blackfin architecture support.
645 * Added AVR32 architecture support.
646 * Added CRIS architecture support.
647 * Made strace detect when traced process suddenly disappeared.
650 * Fixed syscall numbers for tee and sync_file_range.
651 (Addresses Debian bug #503124)
652 * Fixed several bugs in strings decoder, including potential heap
654 (Addresses Fedora bugs #470529, #478324 and #511035)
655 * Marked sendfile(2) as a network syscall.
656 (Addresses Debian bug #509499)
657 * Fixed accept(2) decoding.
658 (Addresses Debian bug #507573)
659 * Fixed sigtimedwait(2) decoding.
660 * Fixed build on ARM EABI.
661 (Addresses Debian bugs #520084 and #535564, and Fedora bug #507576)
662 * Fixed display of 32-bit fcntl(F_SETLK) on 64-bit architectures.
663 (Addresses Red Hat bug #471169)
664 * Fixed display of 32-bit argv array on 64-bit architectures.
665 (Addresses Fedora bug #519480)
666 * Fixed display of 32-bit struct sigaction on 64-bit architectures.
667 * Fixed HPPA architecture support.
668 (Addresses Debian bugs #437928 and #546619)
673 * Support new Linux/PPC system call subpage_prot and PROT_SAO flag.
674 * In sigaction system call, display sa_flags value along with SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
679 * -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now.
680 * Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits.
681 * Improved output for prctl system call on Linux.
682 * Improved support for Linux/ARM.
683 * SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND.
688 * Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux.
689 * Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux.
690 * Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd,
691 eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait.
696 * Several biarch improvements.
697 * Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
698 * Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
703 * Accept numeric system calls in -e.
708 * Introduce "-e trace=desc".
713 * Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
714 * Update PowerPC system calls.
715 * Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
719 * Quick fix release for build issues.
720 * One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
725 * Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
730 * Improve socket ioctl printing.
731 * Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
732 * Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
733 * Improve mount flags printing.
734 * Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
739 * Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
740 * Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
741 * Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
742 * Improve ioctl command name matching.
743 * Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
744 * Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
745 * Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
750 * Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
751 * Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
752 * Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
753 * Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
757 * Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
758 * David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
766 * Update Linux ioctl lists.
767 * Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
768 * The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
773 * On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
774 * Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
779 * Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
780 * Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
785 * Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
789 * New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
790 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
791 * Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
792 * New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
793 * Merged s390/s390x port.
794 * Trace an unbounded number of processes.
795 * Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
796 * Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
797 * Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
798 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
799 * Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
800 * Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
801 * Many other bug fixes.
805 * Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
806 * Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
807 Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
811 * compile fixes for Linux/mips
815 * Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
816 * The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
817 * Linux ioctl list updated
818 * Support IPv6 scope ids
819 * FreeBSD/i386 port added
820 * UnixWare and Solaris updates
821 * Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
825 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
826 * Linux/S390 port added
827 * The usual Linux syscall updates
828 * we can follow fork on arm now
832 * Linux/MIPS port added
833 * Lots of Linux updates again
834 * Improved IPv6 support
840 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
844 * Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
845 * Personalities work again
846 * Compile correctly on SunOS again
852 * Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
859 * add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
860 * support lots more Linux syscalls
861 * fix signal handling
862 * add IPX and IPIP support
863 * check stray syscall after execv
864 * fix hanging children
866 Changes in version 3.1
867 ======================
870 * Linux 68k is supported
871 * Linux alpha is supported
872 * configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
873 * using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
874 * output can be piped to a program
875 * tracing setuid programs works better
876 * it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
877 * new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
878 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
879 take a file name as an argument
880 * IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
881 * Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
882 * Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
883 * various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
885 Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
886 ========================================
888 * filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
889 * string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
890 * preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
891 * by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
892 * all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
893 * the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
895 New Features in version 3.0
896 ===========================
898 * non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
899 * the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
900 * exit values are printed in an alignment column
901 * is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
902 * various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
903 * selective tracing of syscalls
904 * selective printing of syscall structures
905 * selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
906 * selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
907 * selective tracing of signals
908 * selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
909 * selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
910 * optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall
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