1 Noteworthy changes in release ?.?? (????-??-??)
2 ===============================================
4 * Changes in infrastructure
5 * The mailing list was moved to strace-devel@lists.strace.io.
8 * Angle brackets are now printed as octal number escape sequences
9 in the output of paths associated with file descriptors.
12 * Implemented delay injection (-e inject=SET:delay_enter= and
13 -e inject=SET:delay_exit= options).
14 * IPv6 addresses shown in socket information in -yy mode are now printed
16 * Enhanced decoding of prctl and ptrace syscalls.
17 * Enhanced decoding of BTRFS_IOC_INO_PATHS and BTRFS_IOC_LOGICAL_INO ioctl
19 * Enhanced NETLINK_ROUTE protocol decoding.
20 * Updated lists of signal codes.
21 * Updated lists of BPF_*, BTN_*, ETH_P_*, INET_DIAG_BC_*, KEY_*, POLL*, RWF_*,
22 SCHED_FLAG_*, and SCTP_* constants.
23 * Implemented block/character device number printing in -yy mode.
24 * Known pixel/SDR format names are printed as comments for pixelformat fields
26 * Enhanced decoding of kern_features syscall.
30 * Fixed build on m68k.
31 * Fixed v4l2 pixelformat decoding on big-endian architectures.
34 Noteworthy changes in release 4.21 (2018-02-13)
35 ===============================================
37 * Changes in behaviour
38 * Warning is now issued when -F option is used.
39 * Warning is now issued when a tracee with unsupported personality
41 * Unknown syscall numbers are now printed in hexadecimal form.
44 * Implemented decoding of netlink descriptor attributes as file descriptors.
45 * Implemented decoding of hugetlb page size selection flags.
46 * Implemented decoding of BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN, BPF_PROG_GET_NEXT_ID,
47 BPF_MAP_GET_NEXT_ID, BPF_PROG_GET_FD_BY_ID, BPF_MAP_GET_FD_BY_ID,
48 and BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD commands of bpf syscall.
49 * Enhanced decoding of get_thread_area, memfd_create, modify_ldt,
50 perf_event_open, reboot, s390_guarded_storage, s390_pcio_mmio_read,
51 s390_pci_mmio_write, s390_runtime_instr, s390_sthyi, set_thread_area,
53 * Implemented decoding of KVM_* and DM_LIST_DEVICES ioctl commands.
54 * Implemented decoding of riscv_flush_icache syscall.
55 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscalls for SOL_NETLINK
57 * Enhanced decoding of BPF_MAP_CREATE command of bpf syscall.
58 * Print values returned by mq_open syscall and first arguments
59 of mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_timedreceive, and mq_timedsend syscalls
61 * Added decoding of get_tls syscall on arm.
62 * Added -e trace=%pure option for tracing system calls with no arguments that
64 * Updated lists of IPV6_*, MAP_*, MEMBARRIER_CMD_*, MSG_*, NT_*, PKEY_*,
65 SHM_*, and TCP_* constants.
66 * Added manual page for the strace-log-merge command.
67 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.15.
68 * Implemented biarch support for s390x.
69 * Implemented an optional support for symbol demangling in strace -k output
70 (activated by --with-libiberty configure option).
71 * Information about availability of demangling and reliable personality
72 decoding (on architectures with multiple personalities) is now available
74 * Added decoding of pkey_alloc, pkey_free, and pkey_mprotect syscalls on
75 powerpc and powerpc64.
76 * Enhanced manual page.
79 * Fixed multi-personality support in cross builds.
80 * Added mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_open, mq_timedreceive, and mq_timedsend
81 syscalls to %desc tracing set.
82 * Fixed path tracing support for mmap syscalls with indirect arguments and
83 for old select syscall.
84 * Fixed decoding of arm-specific (__ARM_NR_*) syscalls.
85 * Fixed open mode flags decoding.
86 * Fixed corner cases in handling of strace -ff -ttt logs by strace-log-merge.
87 * Error counts that exceed one billion are now printed correctly in call
89 * Fixed call summary header for x32 personality.
90 * Changes of tracee personalities are reported more reliably.
91 * Fixed the case when strace attaches to a tracee being inside exec and its
92 first syscall stop is syscall-exit-stop instead of syscall-enter-stop,
93 which messed up all the syscall state tracking.
94 * Fixed printing of higher 32 bits of the return value for x32 personality.
97 * A C compiler that supports "for" loop initial declarations is now required.
98 * Inability to configure multiple personality support on architectures where
99 multiple personalities are supported leads to configuration failure during
100 build now. Use --enable-mpers=check to revert to the old behaviour.
101 * Build-time requirement for the mpers support has been lowered from gawk 4
103 * Removed incomplete and non-functional support for the CRIS architecture.
104 * Removed incomplete and unused support for IA-32 mode on the IA-64
107 Noteworthy changes in release 4.20 (2017-11-13)
108 ===============================================
111 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_NETFILTER netlink message types and flags.
112 * Implemented decoding of SECCOMP_GET_ACTION_AVAIL operation of seccomp
114 * Updated lists of ARPHRD_*, BPF_*, ETH_P_*, LOOP_*, MADV_*,
115 MEMBARRIER_CMD_*, MFD_*, SECCOMP_*, SO_*, SOL_*, TCP_*, and UFFD_FEATURE_*
117 * Added decoding of statx syscall on hppa.
118 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.14.
121 * Fixed powerpc personality support on powerpc64.
123 Noteworthy changes in release 4.19 (2017-09-05)
124 ===============================================
126 * Changes in behaviour
127 * Changed formatting of personality names on tile architecture in order
128 to make it in line with other multi-personality architectures.
129 * Changed field output order in struct v4l2_requestbuffers to improve in/out
131 * Changed handling of multiple signal= specifications in an injection
132 expression: multiple specification now leads to error instead of implicit
133 usage the last specification.
136 * Enhanced decoding of optlen argument of getsockopt syscall.
137 * Enhanced decoding of SO_LINGER option of getsockopt and setsockopt syscalls.
138 * Enhanced decoding of SO_PEERCRED option of getsockopt syscall.
139 * Enhanced decoding of IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP,
140 IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, IPV6_DROP_MEMBERSHIP, IPV6_JOIN_ANYCAST,
141 IPV6_LEAVE_ANYCAST, MCAST_JOIN_GROUP, and MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP options
142 of setsockopt syscall.
143 * Enhanced decoding of KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE operation of keyctl syscall
144 (KDF parameters decoding).
145 * Implemented decoding of KEYCTL_RESTRICT_KEYRING operation of keyctl syscall.
146 * Enhanced decoding of UFFDIO_API ioctl command.
147 * Enhanced decoding of BPF_PROG_LOAD, BPF_MAP_CREATE, BPF_MAP_LOOKUP_ELEM,
148 and BPF_MAP_GET_NEXT_KEY commands of bpf syscall.
149 * Implemented decoding of linux socket filter programs specified
150 for SO_ATTACH_FILTER and SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_CBPF socket options.
151 * Implemented decoding of inet_diag_req_v2, inet_diag_req_compat,
152 packet_diag_msg, and smc_diag_msg netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
153 * Implemented NETLINK_SELINUX protocol specific decoding.
154 * Implemented decoding of netlink message ack flags.
155 * Implemented decoding of nlmsgerr netlink attributes.
156 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of NETLINK_CRYPTO.
157 * Implemented decoding of crypto_user_alg netlink attributes
159 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of addr, addrlabel, dcb, link,
160 mdb, neigh, neightbl, netconf, nsid, route, rule, tc, and tca messages
162 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT messages.
163 * Improved handling of unexpected tracees (the ones that cloned with
164 CLONE_PARENT/CLONE_PTRACE or called PTRACE_TRACEME on themselves): they
165 are now PTRACE_DETACH'ed instead of PTRACE_CONT'ed.
166 * Updated lists of BPF_*, KEY_*, RWF_*, SCM_*, SO_*, and *_MAGIC constants.
167 * Added decoding of arch_prctl syscall on x86.
168 * Added decoding of seccomp, bpf, userfaultfd, membarrier, mlock2,
169 copy_file_range, preadv2, pwritev2, and statx on alpha.
170 * Added decoding of statx syscall on microblaze.
171 * Added decoding of s390_guarded_storage syscall on s390.
172 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.13.
173 * Enhanced manual page.
176 * Fixed printing of group_req structure on non-native personalities.
177 * Fixed output formatting of blkpg_ioctl_arg, dm_name_list, and iocb
179 * Fixed formatting of nul-terminated strings which have kernel-imposed size
181 * Fixed printing of paths that hit PATM_MAX limit in order to match kernel's
183 * Fixed build warnings on Android mips64.
184 * Fixed unused function "is_negated_errno" build warning when built
186 * Fixed syscall number and arguments retrieval behaviour on sparc64 and
187 mips o32 after prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 0) makes PTRACE_PEEKTEXT impossible
188 to use if Linux kernel has commit v4.10-rc1~114^2~2.
189 * Fixed path tracing for execveat, symlink, symlinkat, inotify_add_watch,
190 and inotify_init syscalls.
191 * Fixed personality switch printing on sparc64 and risc-v.
193 Noteworthy changes in release 4.18 (2017-07-05)
194 ===============================================
197 * Implemented decoding of SCM_TIMESTAMP* control messages.
198 * Implemented decoding of netlink NLMSG_DONE messages.
199 * Implemented decoding of netlink generic nlmsg_type and nlmsg_flags.
200 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_AUDIT, NETLINK_NETFILTER, NETLINK_ROUTE,
201 NETLINK_SELINUX, NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG, and NETLINK_XFRM message types.
202 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_GENERIC protocol families.
203 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of AF_INET, AF_INET6,
204 AF_NETLINK, AF_PACKET, AF_SMC, and AF_UNIX messages of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
205 * Implemented basic decoding of netlink attributes.
206 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of AF_INET, AF_NETLINK,
207 AF_PACKET, AF_SMC, and AF_UNIX netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
208 * Implemented decoding of inet_diag_msg, netlink_diag_msg, and unix_diag_msg
209 netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
210 * Updated lists of ARPHRD_*, KEYCTL_*, NDIAG_SHOW_*, RTM_*, SCM_*, SCTP_*,
211 SO_*, V4L2_*, and prctl ARCH_* constants.
212 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.12.
215 * In interactive mode (-I2), those signals that were blocked at startup
216 will remain blocked for the whole period of strace execution.
217 * strace no longer resets SIGCHLD handler in tracees to the default action.
218 * When traced command is terminated by a blocked signal, strace unblocks
219 that signal to ensure its own termination with the same signal.
220 * Fixed corner cases in decoding of old sigaction syscall.
221 * Fixed build with old kernel headers on mips.
222 * Fixed build on aarch64 and tile with glibc >= 2.26.
223 * Fixed build on arc and nios2.
225 Noteworthy changes in release 4.17 (2017-05-24)
226 ===============================================
228 * Changes in command line syntax
229 * Syscall classes specified in -e trace= option now have % prefix (like
230 -e trace=%process). Old style class names without leading % are still
231 supported, but considered deprecated now.
234 * Optimized syscall filtering.
235 * Improved representation of timestamps.
236 * Enhanced decoding of sched_setattr syscall.
237 * Added -e trace=%stat option for tracing variants of stat syscall.
238 * Added -e trace=%lstat option for tracing variants of lstat syscall.
239 * Added -e trace=%fstat option for tracing variants of fstat and fstatat
241 * Added -e trace=%%stat option for tracing syscalls used for querying file
242 status information (stat, lstat, fstat, fstatat, statx, and their
244 * Added -e trace=%statfs option for tracing statfs, statfs64 and statvfs
246 * Added -e trace=%fstatfs option for tracing fstatfs, fstatfs64 and fstatvfs
248 * Added -e trace=%%statfs option for tracing syscalls used for querying file
249 system statistics information (statfs-like, fstatfs-like and ustat).
250 * Added -e trace=/regex option for filtering syscalls using regular
252 * Added support for prepending of question mark before syscall qualification
253 in -e trace expressions in order to suppress error in case no syscalls
254 matched the provided qualification.
255 * Implemented decoding of signal mask in rt_sigreturn syscall on alpha, arc,
256 arm, avr32, bfin, cris, hppa, m68k, metag, microblaze, mips, nios2, or1k,
257 powerpc, powerpc64, riscv, sh, sh64, sparc, sparc64, tile, x86, and xtensa
259 * Implemented decoding of statx syscall.
260 * Implemented decoding of NS_* ioctl commands.
261 * Implemented decoding of the remaining V4L2_BUF_TYPE_* types.
262 * Implemented decoding of VIDIOC_[SG]_TUNER ioctl commands.
263 * Implemented decoding of NLMSG_ERROR netlink messages.
264 * Improved decoding of BPF_PROG_ATTACH command of bpf syscall.
265 * Improved decoding of misplaced parts in DM_* ioctl commands.
266 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.11.
269 * Fixed decoding of flags argument of preadv2 and pwritev2 syscalls on x32.
270 * Fixed the number of arguments and tracing flags of alpha specific syscalls.
271 * Fixed decoding of old sigsuspend syscall on alpha, cris, mips, powerpc,
272 powerpc64, sh, sh64, sparc, and sparc64.
273 * Fixed decoding of sgetmask and ssetmask syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
274 * Fixed decoding of netlink messages received within struct msghdr.
275 * Worked around a bug in miscompiled aarch64 kernels leading to the 3rd
276 argument of sched_getattr syscall being not quite 32-bit.
277 * Fixed corner cases of printing inaccessible times argument of utimes
278 and futimesat syscalls.
280 Noteworthy changes in release 4.16 (2017-02-14)
281 ===============================================
284 * Implemented syscall return value injection (-e inject=SET:retval= option).
285 * Implemented signal injection (-e inject=SET:signal= option).
286 * Implemented decoding of SUID_DUMP_* constants in PR_[GS]ET_DUMPABLE.
287 * Implemented decoding of all SG_* ioctl commands.
288 * Implemented decoding of ustat syscall.
289 * Implemented decoding of BPF_OBJ_PIN, BPF_OBJ_GET, BPF_PROG_ATTACH,
290 and BPF_PROG_DETACH commands of bpf syscall.
291 * Enhanced decoding of sg_io_hdr and sg_io_v4 structures.
292 * Enhanced decoding of get_robust_list, getrandom, io_submit, set_robust_list
294 * Enhanced decoding of entities of kernel long type on x32 and mips n32 ABIs.
295 * Updated lists of IP_*, IPV6_*, and LOOP_* constants.
296 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.10.
297 * Added decoding of recently added syscalls on avr32, microblaze, ppc,
301 * Fixed pathmatch of oldselect syscall on 64-bit architectures.
302 * Fixed decoding of mmap2 syscall on s390 when arguments are not available.
303 * Fixed decoding of kexec_file_load, mprotect, pkey_mprotect, prctl, preadv*,
304 and pwritev* syscalls on x32.
305 * Fixed printing of string arguments of getxattr and setxattr syscalls
306 when -s option is used to limit the printed string size.
307 * Fixed decoding of ifconf, ifreq, and loop_info structures on non-native
309 * Fixed decoding of SG_* and LOOP_* ioctl commands.
310 * Fixed build on mips with musl libc.
311 * Fixed cross-building of ioctlsort.
312 * Applied minor formatting fixes to the manual page.
314 Noteworthy changes in release 4.15 (2016-12-14)
315 ===============================================
317 * Changes in behavior
318 * Time stamps are now printed according to ISO 8601.
319 * Changed output format of val3 parameter of futex FUTEX_WAKE_OP operation.
320 * The last argument of mincore, sched_getaffinity, and sched_setaffinity
321 syscalls is now formatted as an array.
324 * Implemented syscall fault injection (-e fault=... option).
325 * Implemented decoding of DM_* ioctl commands.
326 * Implemented decoding of attr parameter of perf_event_open syscall.
327 * Implemented decoding of pkey_alloc, pkey_free, and pkey_mprotect syscalls.
328 * Implemented dumping of mq_timedsend and mq_timedreceive syscalls.
329 * Implemented decoding of PR_SET_FP_MODE and PR_GET_FP_MODE operations
331 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on m68k.
332 * Updated lists of ARCH_*, BPF_*, BTRFS_*, FALLOC_*, MS_*, *_MAGIC,
333 and V4L2_* constants.
334 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.9.
335 * Added decoding of recently added syscalls on arc, x32, and xtensa.
336 * Enhanced manual page.
339 * Fixed corner cases in decoding of exit, exit_group, futimesat, getgroups,
340 getresuid, init_module, inotify_init1, kcmp, kexec_load, lookup_dcookie,
341 mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_open, mq_timedreceive, mq_timedsend,
342 name_to_handle_at, prctl, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, setfsuid,
343 setgroups, setns, unshare, and utimes syscalls.
344 * Fixed handling of verbose flag in printing of controls array
345 of struct v4l2_ext_controls.
346 * Fixed omission of field names in the output of capability, sigaction,
347 sigevent, statfs, timespec, timeval, and utimbuf structures.
348 * Fixed printing of unknown syscalls in siginfo structure.
349 * Fixed decoding of ioctl constants on m68k.
350 * Fixed cris architecture support.
351 * Fixed cross build when host compiler does not support the same
352 set of warning flags as the cross compiler.
353 * Fixed build on SLE10 and SLE11.
355 Noteworthy changes in release 4.14 (2016-10-04)
356 ===============================================
358 * Changes in behavior
359 * When using -p option without a command and no processes has been attached,
360 strace exits with exit status 1.
363 * Added printing of the mode argument of open and openat syscalls
364 when O_TMPFILE flag is set. (Addresses Fedora bug #1377846).
365 * Enhanced -e abbrev=set, -e raw=set, and -e verbose=set.
366 * Enhanced decoding of futex, keyctl, quotactl, timerfd_settime,
367 and aio family syscalls.
368 * Implemented fetching of the 7th subcall argument on mips o32.
369 * Updated lists of BPF_*, ETH_P_*, KEXEC_ARCH_*, SCTP_*, TCP_*, and *_MAGIC
371 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.8.
372 * Added decoding of new syscalls on sh and sh64.
373 * Added RISC-V architecture support.
376 * Marked io_setup and io_destroy as memory mapping related syscalls.
377 * Fixed leakage of placeholder descriptors to tracees.
378 * Fixed printing of mode_t, umode_t, and umask types.
379 * Fixed decoding of iovec arrays without a limit on total data size.
380 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, futex, keyctl, quotactl, readahead,
381 and ipc family syscalls.
382 * Fixed decoding of invalid syscalls mapped to indirect subcalls.
383 * Fixed decoding of struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args_v2 on non-native
385 * Fixed decoding of PTRACE_DETACH on sparc and sparc64.
386 * Fixed decoding of struct stat64 on sparc64.
387 * Fixed decoding of uid and gid-related syscalls on sparc64.
388 * Fixed decoding of the forth argument of semctl syscall on sparc64.
389 * Fixed values of tty ioctl constants on sparc64.
390 * Fixed sparc personality support on sparc64.
392 Noteworthy changes in release 4.13 (2016-07-26)
393 ===============================================
396 * Implemented a general netlink socket parser.
397 * Enhanced decoding of socket addresses.
398 * Enhanced decoding of cmsghdr, msghdr, and mmsghdr structures.
399 * Enhanced decoding of accept, accept4, bind, getpeername, getsockname,
400 ipc, recvfrom, recvmsg, recvmmsg, sendto, sendmmsg, and socketcall syscalls.
401 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, KEY_*, KEYCTL_*, RWF_*, SS_*,
402 and *_MAGIC constants.
403 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.7.
406 * Fixed decoding of pid_t argument of prlimit64 syscall.
407 * Fixed sign extension issues in the parser of struct rusage.
408 * Fixed race condition in decoding of timeout argument of recvmmsg and
409 rt_sigtimedwait syscalls.
410 * Fixed build with fresh linux kernel headers.
412 Noteworthy changes in release 4.12 (2016-05-31)
413 ===============================================
416 * Implemented simultaneous use of -p option and tracing of a command.
417 (addresses Debian bug #549942).
418 * Implemented caching of netlink conversations to reduce amount of time
419 spent in decoding socket details in -yy mode.
420 * Implemented -yy mode decoding of protocol:portid pairs associated with
421 netlink socket descriptors.
422 * Implemented decoding of copy_file_range, preadv2, and pwritev2 syscalls.
423 * Implemented dumping of preadv, preadv2, pwritev, pwritev2, and vmsplice
425 * Implemented decoding of BTRFS_* and UFFDIO_* ioctl commands.
426 * Enhanced decoding of BLK*, EVIOC*, RTC_*, and VIDIOC_* ioctl commands.
427 * Enhanced decoding of fstatfs, fstatfs64, get_mempolicy, getdents,
428 getdents64, getgroups, getpriority, kill, mbind, migrate_pages, mknod,
429 mknodat, personality, poll, ppoll, quotactl, rt_sigpending,
430 rt_sigqueueinfo, rt_sigtimedwait, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sched_getaffinity,
431 sched_setaffinity, seccomp, set_mempolicy, setgroups, setpriority, statfs,
432 statfs64, tgkill, waitid, and xattr family syscalls.
433 * Enhanced decoding of getxpid, getxuid, and getxgid syscalls on alpha.
434 * Enhanced decoding of pipe syscall on alpha, ia64, mips, sh, and sparc.
435 * Added decoding of bind, listen, and setsockopt direct syscalls on sparc.
436 * Added decoding of osf_statfs64 and osf_fstatfs64 syscalls on alpha.
437 * Added decoding of fadvise64 and fadvise64_64 on s390.
438 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, CLONE_*, EPOLL*, IPV6_*, MADV_*,
439 MSG_*, PTRACE_*, SEGV_*, SO_*, SOL_*, *_MAGIC, and quotactl constants.
440 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.6.
443 * Fixed build on arc, metag, nios2, or1k, and tile architectures.
444 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit times syscall return value on 64-bit architectures.
445 * Fixed decoding of mlock2 syscall on sparc.
446 * Fixed decoding of osf_shmat syscall on alpha.
447 * Fixed decoding of syscalls unknown to the kernel on s390/s390x.
448 (addresses Debian bug #485979 and Fedora bug #1298294).
449 * Fixed decoding of preadv syscall in case of short read.
450 * Fixed decoding and dumping of readv syscall in case of short read.
451 * Fixed dumping of recvmsg and recvmmsg syscalls in case of short read.
452 * Fixed decoding of mincore syscall's last argument.
453 * Fixed remaining errors in mapping between syscall numbers and numbers
454 of syscall arguments.
455 * Applied various fixes to strace-graph script.
457 Noteworthy changes in release 4.11 (2015-12-21)
458 ===============================================
460 * Changes in behavior
461 * Some syscalls have different names depending on architecture and
462 personality. In these cases, syscall filtering and printing now
463 consistently uses the names that match corresponding __NR_* kernel
464 macros of the tracee's architecture and personality.
465 * Added strace prefix to all diagnostic messages.
468 * Enhanced and extended test suite.
469 * Implemented reliable tracing of processes whose personality differs
470 from the personality of strace, fixed decoding of 32-bit personality
471 syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
472 * When some data referenced by syscall arguments is irrelevant or cannot
473 be read from tracee's memory, strace now prints its address consistently.
474 * When a syscall is restarted using restart_syscall mechanism, strace now
475 shows the syscall name on architectures that expose this information.
476 * Print values returned by epoll_create1, eventfd, eventfd2, fanotify_init,
477 inotify_init1, perf_event_open, pipe, pipe2, signalfd, signalfd4, socket,
478 socketpair, timerfd, and timerfd_create syscalls, as well as F_DUPFD and
479 F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC fcntl commands, as file descriptors.
480 * Optimized decoding of indirect socket syscalls.
481 * Implemented decoding of nanoseconds along with seconds in stat family
482 syscalls (addresses Fedora bug #1251176).
483 * Implemented decoding of struct statfs.f_flags in statfs syscall.
484 * Implemented decoding of siginfo_t.si_syscall and siginfo_t.si_arch
486 * Implemented decoding of indirect syscall on mips o32.
487 * Implemented decoding of IPPROTO_IP control messages.
488 * Implemented decoding of setsockopt syscall multicast arguments.
489 * Enhanced decoding of struct sigevent.
490 * Enhanced decoding of block, loop, mtd, ptp, rtc, SG_IO, socket, tty,
491 and v4l2 ioctl syscall arguments.
492 * Enhanced decoding of epoll_create, fcntl, fcntl64, futex, getdents,
493 getdents64, getsockopt, io_*, mount, msgctl, prctl, quotactl, recvfrom,
494 sendfile, setsockopt, and shmctl syscalls.
495 * Implemented decoding of bpf, execveat, ioperm, iopl, kcmp, kexec_file_load,
496 lookup_dcookie, membarrier, memfd_create, mlock2, name_to_handle_at,
497 open_by_handle_at, sched_getattr, sched_setattr, and userfaultfd syscalls.
498 * Updated lists of AF_*, EPOLL_*, FALLOC_FL_*, F_*, INPUT_PROP_*, IPPROTO_*,
499 IPV6_*, IP_*, KEY_*, LOCK_*, MNT_*, MS_*, PACKET_*, PERF_FLAG_*, PF_*,
500 PR_*, PTRACE_O_*, RENAME_*, SCTP_*, SECBIT_*, SO_*, TCP_*, and siginfo_t
502 * Added Nios II architecture support.
503 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 4.4.
506 * Fixed potential short read of strings from tracee's memory.
507 * Fixed -qq option in conjunction with -o option.
508 * Fixed filtering of <unavailable> syscalls.
509 * Fixed decoding of ioctl syscall command on aarch64 and 32-bit architectures
510 with 64-bit aligned structures.
511 * Fixed decoding of eventfd2, epoll_create1, signalfd4, and sync_file_range2
512 syscall flags arguments.
513 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of clock_nanosleep syscall.
514 * Fixed decoding of getpagesize syscall on m68k.
515 * Fixed decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls on aarch64.
516 * Fixed decoding of timezone argument of gettimeofday and settimeofday
518 * Fixed decoding of offset argument of mmap2 syscall on arm, sparc,
520 * Fixed decoding of pipe syscall on alpha and mips.
521 * Fixed decoding of pipe2 syscall on ia64, sh, sparc, and sparc64.
522 * Fixed decoding of signal mask argument of pselect6 syscall on x32.
523 * Fixed decoding of signal mask of rt_sigreturn syscall on aarch64, m68k,
525 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of semctl indirect syscall.
526 * Fixed decoding of sa_restorer and sa_mask of sigaction syscall on m68k.
527 * Fixed decoding of statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls on arm eabi.
528 * Fixed decoding of struct dirent on x32.
529 * Fixed decoding of times syscall return value on mips n32 and x32.
530 * Fixed decoding of path argument of umount2 syscall
531 (addresses Debian bug #785050).
532 * Worked around a kernel bug in tracing privileged executables.
533 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
534 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
537 Noteworthy changes in release 4.10 (2015-03-06)
538 ===============================================
541 * Added -yy option to print protocol and address information associated with
543 * Extended "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" options to cover sendmsg,
544 recvmsg, sendmmsg, and recvmmsg syscalls.
545 * Implemented full 32-bit decoding of ioctl commands
546 (addresses Debian bug #692913 and Fedora bug #902788).
547 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on ia64.
548 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on mips.
549 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGSET API support on s390/s390x.
550 * Implemented decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls.
551 * Implemented full decoding of 64-bit capability sets.
552 * Implemented decoding of all prctl commands.
553 * Implemented decoding of parametrized ioctl commands.
554 * Implemented decoding of evdev ioctl commands.
555 * Implemented decoding of v4l ioctl commands.
556 * Implemented decoding of SG_IO v4 ioctl commands.
557 * Implemented decoding of FIFREEZE/FITHAW/FITRIM ioctl commands.
558 * Implemented decoding of FALLOC_FL_* fallocate flags.
559 * Implemented decoding of rt_sigreturn signal mask on aarch64,
561 * Enhanced socket decoder to support bluetooth sockets.
562 * Enhanced decoding of unlisted ioctl commands.
563 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscall.
564 * Enhanced decoding of sysinfo syscall.
565 * Enhanced decoding of struct cmsghdr.
566 * Enhanced decoding of wait status.
567 * Enhanced aio support on non-x86 architectures by using external libaio.h.
568 * Added O_TMPFILE to the list of recognized open mode flags.
569 * Updated the list of filesystem type constants that is used in decoding
570 statfs family syscalls.
571 * Updated lists of CAP_*, PR_*, PTRACE_*, SCHED_*, SO_*, SOL_*, SWAP_FLAG_*,
573 * Updated lists of signal constants from Linux 3.19.
574 * Updated lists of errno constants from Linux 3.19.
575 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 3.9.
576 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.19.
579 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
580 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
582 * Fixed quoting issues in printing descriptors, filenames, network interface
583 names, struct utsname members, device/volume names of BLK* ioctl commands.
584 * Fixed uid_t/git_t decoding.
585 * Fixed potential out-of-bounds read issues in getdents/getdents64 decoders.
586 * Fixed potential open flags truncation on some architectures.
587 * Fixed decoding of struct ifreq.ifr_name.
588 * Fixed decoding of SIOCSIFNAME ioctl command.
589 * Fixed decoding of RENAME_* renameat2 flags.
590 * Fixed decoding of UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT timeval structures.
591 * Fixed decoding of indirect ipc subcalls on some architectures.
592 * Fixed decoding of fanotify_mark syscall on 32-bit architectures.
593 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit stat structures on 64-bit architectures.
594 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit struct cmsghdr on 64-bit architectures.
595 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit preadv/pwritev offset on 64-bit architectures.
596 * Fixed decoding of sigreturn/rt_sigreturn signal mask on ia64, ppc, ppc64,
597 sparc, sparc64, mips, and s390.
598 * Fixed instruction pointer output (-i option) on architectures that support
599 several personalities.
600 * Fixed behaviour of "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" when read and write
602 * Fixed build on systems where struct sigaction has no sa_restorer member.
603 * Fixed build with uclibc and musl libc.
606 * Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required.
607 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_SETOPTIONS support will not work.
608 * On mips, linux kernel >= 2.6.15 is required.
609 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work.
610 * On s390 and s390x, linux kernel >= 2.6.27 is required.
611 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGSET support will not work.
613 Noteworthy changes in release 4.9 (2014-08-15)
614 ==============================================
616 * Changes in behavior
617 * Disabled OABI support on ARM EABI systems by default,
618 added --enable-arm-oabi option to enable it at configure time.
621 * Added experimental -k option to print stack trace after each traced syscall.
622 * Added -w option to produce stats on syscall latency.
623 (addresses Debian bug #457497).
624 * Added ARC architecture support.
625 * Added PTRACE_GETREGS API support on PowerPC.
626 * Enhanced Bionic libc and musl libc support.
627 * Enhanced tracing of x86 personality processes on x86_64 and x32.
628 * Enhanced tracing of ARM personality processes on AArch64.
629 * Enhanced 32/64bit personality detection on PowerPC.
630 * Implemented decoding of add_key, ioprio_get, ioprio_set, kexec_load, keyctl,
631 renameat2, and request_key syscalls.
632 * Robustified decoding of select, pselect, and io_submit syscalls.
633 * Enhanced decoding of delete_module, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, fcntl,
634 setdomainname, sethostname, setns, and sync_file_range syscalls.
635 * Enhanced decoding of signal bitmasks.
636 * Enhanced decoding of file descriptors.
637 * Enhanced siginfo_t decoding.
638 * Enhanced PF_NETLINK decoding.
639 * Updated CLOCK_* constants
640 (addresses Fedora bug #1088455).
641 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.16.
644 * Added shmat and shmdt to the set of memory mapping related syscalls.
645 * Fixed detaching from stopped processes.
646 * Fixed fanotify_mark decoding on 32bit architectures.
647 * Fixed offset decoding in preadv and pwritev syscalls.
648 * Fixed select decoding for glibc in _FORTIFY_SOURCE mode.
649 * Fixed decoding of epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_DEL argument.
650 * Fixed build when <sys/ptrace.h> and <linux/ptrace.h> conflict
651 (addresses Fedora bug #993384).
652 * Miscellaneous corrections in the manual page.
653 (Addresses Debian bug #725987).
655 Noteworthy changes in release 4.8 (2013-06-03)
656 ==============================================
658 * Changes in behavior
659 * In case of normal strace termination, when the trace output is
660 redirected to a pipe, strace now closes it and waits for the pipe
661 process termination before exit.
664 * Implemented tracing using PTRACE_SEIZE API (when available).
665 * Implemented more reliable PTRACE_GETREGSET-based process personality
666 detection on x86-64 and x32 (when available).
667 * Added -e trace=memory option for tracing memory mapping related syscalls.
668 * Documented -b option.
669 * Allowed exit status messages to be suppressed by giving -q option twice.
670 * Added AArch64 architecture support
671 (addresses Debian bug #693074 and Fedora bug #969858).
672 * Added support for OpenRISC 1000, Meta, and Xtensa architectures.
673 * Added tilegx personality support for Tile.
674 * Enhanced support of NOMMU architectures.
675 * Enhanced decoding of getdents, mmap, perf_event_open, ptrace, and
677 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.9.
678 * Regenerated the list of common ioctl names from Linux 3.9.
679 * Updated the list of errno constants.
680 * Updated lists of AF_*, MADV_*, MAP_*, MSG_*, MS_*, PF_*, PR_*,
681 PTRACE_O_*, and TCP_* constants.
682 * Implemented decoding of UBI ioctls.
683 * Removed redundant "*32" ioctl names.
686 * Fixed ERESTARTNOINTR leaking to userspace on ancient kernels
687 (addresses Fedora bug #659382).
688 * Fixed kernel release string parsing
689 (addresses Debian bug #702309).
690 * Fixed decoding of *xattr syscalls
691 (addresses Fedora bug #885233).
692 * Fixed handling of files with 64-bit inode numbers by 32-bit strace
693 (addresses Fedora bug #912790).
694 * Fixed tracing forks on SPARC.
695 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, ftruncate64, io_submit, pread,
696 preadv, pwrite, pwritev, readahead, sigaltstack, sync_file_range, sysctl,
697 and truncate64 syscalls.
698 * Fixed categories of multiple syscalls on most of supported architectures.
699 * Fixed decoding of non-native 32-bit personality recv[m]msg syscalls.
700 * Fixed decoding of multiple 32-bit personality syscalls on x32.
701 * Fixed decoding of long long syscall arguments on ARM, MIPS/o32, PowerPC,
702 S390x, and Tile architectures.
703 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on S390x.
704 * Fixed sram_alloc decoding on Blackfin.
705 * Fixed build when process_vm_readv is a stab.
706 * Fixed build with older versions of libaio.h.
708 Noteworthy changes in release 4.7 (2012-05-02)
709 ==============================================
711 * Changes in behavior
712 * strace no longer suspends waitpid until there is a child
713 for waitpid'ing process to collect status from.
714 * strace no longer detaches from a tracee which is supposed
716 * strace now issues a new message: "+++ exited with EXITCODE +++"
717 which shows exact moment strace got exit notification,
718 analogous to existing "+++ killed by SIG +++" message.
721 * Added x32 personality support (x86_64 architecture).
722 * Added -y and -P options to print file descriptor paths and
723 filter by those paths.
724 * Added -I option to control strace interactivity.
725 * Allowed -p option to take comma or whitespace-separated list of PIDs.
726 * Added strace_log_merge script helper to merge timestamped "strace -ff"
728 * Implemented decoding of clock_adjtime, get_robust_list, migrate_pages,
729 preadv, prlimit64, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, pwritev,
730 recvmmsg, recvmsg, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sendmmsg, setns, set_robust_list,
731 sched_rr_get_interval, splice, syslog, tee and vmsplice syscalls.
732 * Enhanced decoding of capget, capset, getrlimit, flistxattr, io_submit,
733 listxattr, setrlimit and swapon syscalls.
734 * Implemented decoding of loop and mtd ioctls.
735 * Added syscall entries for new linux syscalls.
736 * Added syscall entries for direct socket system calls on powerpc.
737 * Updated the list of errno constants.
738 * Updated lists of MSG_*, STA_*, and TCP_* constants.
739 * Regenerated the list of ioctl names from Linux 3.3.
740 * Enhanced switching between processes with different personalities.
741 * Enhanced signals reporting by using short signal names.
742 * Made ERESTART* messages more descriptive.
743 * Made parsing of numbers from strings more robust.
744 * Added support for compat_statfs64 and statfs64.f_flags.
745 * Changed read of data blocks to use single process_vm_readv syscall
746 (when available) instead of several PTRACE_PEEKDATA operations.
747 * Changed read of registers on x86 and x86-64 to use single PTRACE_GETREGS
748 operation instead of several PTRACE_PEEKUSER operations.
749 * Applied various optimizations to make strace work faster.
752 * Implemented proper handling of real SIGTRAPs on kernels supporting
753 PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD.
754 (Addresses Fedora bug #162774).
755 * Fixed sockaddr_un.sun_path name in decoded output.
756 (Addresses Debian bug #554946).
757 * Fixed to avoid potential core file clobbering on exit.
758 (Addresses Debian bug #656398).
759 * Fixed a typo in documentation.
760 (Addresses Debian bug #653309).
761 * Fixed decoding of timer id returned by timer_create.
762 * Fixed epoll_create1, epoll_wait and epoll_pwait decoding.
763 * Fixed *at syscalls flags decoding.
764 * Fixed ARM EABI 64-bit syscall's arguments decoding.
765 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on s390.
766 * Fixed osf_sigprocmask decoding on alpha.
767 * Fixed ipc and socket subcall decoding on several architectures.
768 * Corrected syscall entries for epoll_pwait, epoll_create, epoll_ctl,
769 epoll_wait, mincore, mlockall, prctl, reboot, sendfile, sendfile64,
770 sendmsg, sgetmask, ssetmask, swapon, tgkill and tkill syscalls.
771 * Corrected io_* syscall entries on ARM.
772 * Fixed PID prefix printing in "strace -oLOG -ff -p1 -p2 -p3" case.
773 * Fixed logging of unfinished lines in "strace -oLOG -ff" case.
774 * Fixed build when libaio-devel is not available.
775 * Fixed configure checks for PTRACE_* constants.
776 * Fixed compilation warnings remained on several architectures.
779 * Removed all non-Linux code. After years of neglect, that dead code
780 just hampered further strace development.
781 * Linux kernel >= 2.6.18 is recommended. Older versions might still
782 work but they haven't been thoroughly tested with this release.
784 Noteworthy changes in release 4.6 (2011-03-15)
785 ==============================================
787 * Changes in behavior
788 * Print diagnostic information about changes in personality mode to
789 standard error instead of standard output.
792 * Implemented a new method of following clone, fork, and vfork
793 syscalls using the Linux kernel's explicit facilities for tracing
794 creation of threads and child processes.
795 * Implemented CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_UNTRACED flags handling.
796 * Implemented decoding of TLS syscalls on m68k.
797 * Implemented biarch support on powerpc64.
798 * Implemented biarch support for getrlimit() and setrlimit().
799 * Implemented decoding of struct ucred in getsockopt SO_PEERCRED.
800 * Implemented SOL_SCTP socket options decoding.
801 * Added HDIO_* ioctl names.
802 (Addresses Debian bug #450953).
803 * Added LOOP_* ioctl names.
804 * Updated lists of CLOCK_*, CLONE_*, MS_*, and SOL_* constants
805 to match Linux 2.6.37.
806 * Updated the list of IPPROTO_* constants to match netinet/in.h.
807 * Implemented decoding of HDIO_* and BLK* ioctls.
808 * Added MicroBlaze architecture support.
809 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 2.6.37.
810 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from Linux 2.6.37.
811 * Enhanced signal notification decoding.
812 * Documented -C and -D options.
815 * Fixed fetching syscall arguments on m68k.
816 * Fixed an error when judging whether a process has children.
817 * Fixed get/set_robust_list syscall numbers for powerpc.
818 * Fixed a corner case in printing clone flags.
819 * Fixed cross-compiling issues.
820 * Fixed build issues on powerpc64, SH and SPARC.
821 * Fixed syscall flags of fstatat*, mmap, mmap2, fadvise64*, swapoff,
822 fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, epoll_create, fallocate,
823 fanotify_init, and fanotify_mark syscalls.
824 * Fixed decoding of get[ug]id, gete[ug]id and setfs[ug]id return values.
825 * Fixed biarch support in IO dumping.
826 * Fixed raw exit_group decoding.
827 * Fixed decoding of file descriptors on 64-bit architectures.
828 * Fixed a corner case in waitpid handling.
829 (Addresses Red Hat bug #663547).
830 * Fixed stat64 decoding on mips
831 (Addresses Debian bug #599028).
832 * Fixed misleading italics in the manual page.
833 (Addresses Debian bug #589323).
835 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.20 (2010-04-13)
836 =================================================
839 * Implemented decoding of new linux syscalls: inotify_init1, recvmmsg.
840 * Implemented basic decoding of new linux syscalls: preadv, pwritev,
841 rt_tgsigqueueinfo, perf_event_open.
842 * Enhanced decoding of recently added syscalls on non-x86 architectures
843 by replacing a bare decoder with elaborate parsers enabled earlier
845 * Implemented -C option to combine regular and -c output.
846 (Addresses Debian bug #466196)
847 * Enhanced decoding of mbind and mremap syscalls.
848 * Enhanced SOL_PACKET socket options decoding.
849 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from linux 2.6.33.
850 * Added TILE architecture support.
853 * Fixed build with Linux kernel headers 2.6.32-rc5+.
854 (Addresses Debian bug #560516 and Fedora bug #539044)
855 * Fixed build on mips.
856 * Fixed handling of Linux systems without struct statfs64.
857 * Fixed reporting signal mask by sigreturn on powerpc.
858 * Fixed potential stack buffer overflow in select decoder.
859 (Addresses Fedora bug #556678)
860 * Corrected msgsnd indirect ipccall decoding.
861 * Corrected decoding of 64bit syscalls.
862 (Addresses Debian bug #570603)
863 * Corrected getsockopt decoding on architectures where
864 sizeof(long) > sizeof(int).
865 (Addresses Debian bug #494844)
866 * Corrected decoding of epoll_pwait.
867 (Addresses Debian bug #513014)
868 * Corrected handling of killed threads.
870 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.19 (2009-10-21)
871 =================================================
873 * Changes in behavior
874 * When command exits, strace now exits with the same exit status.
875 If command is terminated by a signal, strace terminates itself
876 with the same signal, so that strace can be used as a wrapper
877 process transparent to the invoking parent process.
878 When using -p option, the exit status of strace is zero unless
879 there was an unexpected error in doing the tracing.
880 (Addresses Fedora bug #105371 and Debian bug #37665)
883 * Implemented decoding of new Linux syscalls: accept4, dup3,
884 epoll_create1, eventfd2, inotify_init1, pipe2, signalfd4.
885 * Implemented decoding of socket type flags introduced in Linux 2.6.27.
886 * Implemented decoding of accept4 socketcall.
887 * Enhanced prctl decoding.
888 * Enhanced nanosleep decoding.
889 * Enhanced ptrace decoding.
890 * Enhanced futex decoding.
891 * Enhanced CAP_* decoding.
892 * Enhanced SIOCS* ioctls decoding.
893 * Enhanced fcntl F_* flags decoding.
894 * Enhanced semop/semtimedop decoding.
895 * Updated ARM architecture support.
896 * Added Blackfin architecture support.
897 * Added AVR32 architecture support.
898 * Added CRIS architecture support.
899 * Made strace detect when traced process suddenly disappeared.
902 * Fixed syscall numbers for tee and sync_file_range.
903 (Addresses Debian bug #503124)
904 * Fixed several bugs in strings decoder, including potential heap
906 (Addresses Fedora bugs #470529, #478324 and #511035)
907 * Marked sendfile(2) as a network syscall.
908 (Addresses Debian bug #509499)
909 * Fixed accept(2) decoding.
910 (Addresses Debian bug #507573)
911 * Fixed sigtimedwait(2) decoding.
912 * Fixed build on ARM EABI.
913 (Addresses Debian bugs #520084 and #535564, and Fedora bug #507576)
914 * Fixed display of 32-bit fcntl(F_SETLK) on 64-bit architectures.
915 (Addresses Red Hat bug #471169)
916 * Fixed display of 32-bit argv array on 64-bit architectures.
917 (Addresses Fedora bug #519480)
918 * Fixed display of 32-bit struct sigaction on 64-bit architectures.
919 * Fixed HPPA architecture support.
920 (Addresses Debian bugs #437928 and #546619)
925 * Support new Linux/PPC system call subpage_prot and PROT_SAO flag.
926 * In sigaction system call, display sa_flags value along with SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
931 * -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now.
932 * Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits.
933 * Improved output for prctl system call on Linux.
934 * Improved support for Linux/ARM.
935 * SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND.
940 * Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux.
941 * Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux.
942 * Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd,
943 eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait.
948 * Several biarch improvements.
949 * Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
950 * Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
955 * Accept numeric system calls in -e.
960 * Introduce "-e trace=desc".
965 * Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
966 * Update PowerPC system calls.
967 * Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
971 * Quick fix release for build issues.
972 * One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
977 * Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
982 * Improve socket ioctl printing.
983 * Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
984 * Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
985 * Improve mount flags printing.
986 * Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
991 * Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
992 * Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
993 * Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
994 * Improve ioctl command name matching.
995 * Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
996 * Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
997 * Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
1002 * Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
1003 * Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
1004 * Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
1005 * Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
1009 * Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
1010 * David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
1018 * Update Linux ioctl lists.
1019 * Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
1020 * The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
1025 * On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
1026 * Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
1031 * Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
1032 * Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
1037 * Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
1041 * New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
1042 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
1043 * Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
1044 * New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
1045 * Merged s390/s390x port.
1046 * Trace an unbounded number of processes.
1047 * Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
1048 * Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
1049 * Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
1050 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
1051 * Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
1052 * Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
1053 * Many other bug fixes.
1057 * Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
1058 * Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
1059 Improve the ioctl extractor as well so we decode some more ones.
1063 * compile fixes for Linux/mips
1067 * Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
1068 * The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
1069 * Linux ioctl list updated
1070 * Support IPv6 scope ids
1071 * FreeBSD/i386 port added
1072 * UnixWare and Solaris updates
1073 * Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
1077 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
1078 * Linux/S390 port added
1079 * The usual Linux syscall updates
1080 * we can follow fork on arm now
1084 * Linux/MIPS port added
1085 * Lots of Linux updates again
1086 * Improved IPv6 support
1092 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
1096 * Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
1097 * Personalities work again
1098 * Compile correctly on SunOS again
1104 * Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
1111 * add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
1112 * support lots more Linux syscalls
1113 * fix signal handling
1114 * add IPX and IPIP support
1115 * check stray syscall after execv
1116 * fix hanging children
1118 Changes in version 3.1
1119 ======================
1121 * Irix5 is supported
1122 * Linux 68k is supported
1123 * Linux alpha is supported
1124 * configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
1125 * using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
1126 * output can be piped to a program
1127 * tracing setuid programs works better
1128 * it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
1129 * new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
1130 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
1131 take a file name as an argument
1132 * IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
1133 * Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
1134 * Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
1135 * various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
1137 Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
1138 ========================================
1140 * filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
1141 * string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
1142 * preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
1143 * by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
1144 * all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
1145 * the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
1147 New Features in version 3.0
1148 ===========================
1150 * non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
1151 * the output format is readable when multiple processes are generating output
1152 * exit values are printed in an alignment column
1153 * is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
1154 * various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
1155 * selective tracing of syscalls
1156 * selective printing of syscall structures
1157 * selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
1158 * selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
1159 * selective tracing of signals
1160 * selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
1161 * selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
1162 * optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall
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