1 Noteworthy changes in release ?.?? (????-??-??)
2 ===============================================
5 * On x32 personality, 64-bit syscalls (such as readv) are now shown with "#64"
6 suffix instead of "64:" prefix. Unlike the old names, these new names
7 can be used in syscall qualification expressions.
8 * Changed error number output format: error numbers are consistently
9 printed as "-1 ECONST (Error description)"
10 for known errors and as "-1 (errno 123)" for unknown errors,
11 regardless of -e raw qualification settings. One can specify
12 -X raw for displaying raw error numbers unconditionally.
13 * Unfetchable addresses inside arrays are now printed as comments.
16 * Implemented libdw backend for -k option, configured at build time
17 using --with-libdw option.
18 Whether -k option is compiled is now configured at build time
19 using --enable-stacktrace option.
20 * Added -X option for configuring xlat output formatting (addresses
22 * Implemented injection of syscalls with no side effects as an alternative
23 to injection of an invalid syscall (-e inject=SET:syscall= expression).
24 * Improved support for reproducible builds (addresses Debian bug #896016).
25 * Implemented decoding of BPF_PROG_QUERY and BPF_RAW_TRACEPOINT_OPEN bpf
27 * Implemented decoding of INOTIFY_IOC_SETNEXTWD and PERF_EVENT_IOC_* ioctl
29 * Implemented decoding of PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL and PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL
30 prctl syscall options.
31 * Enhanced decoding of bpf, getsockopt, setsockopt, and socket syscalls.
32 * Enhanced decoding of NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT and NETLINK_ROUTE protocols.
33 * Enhanced decoding of *_DIAG_MEMINFO netlink attributes.
34 * Enhanced decoding of BTRFS_*, FS_IOC_*, SIOCGIFHWADDR, and SIOCSIFHWADDR
36 * Enhanced decoding of AF_BLUETOOTH socket addresses.
37 * Updated lists of ADJ_*, BPF_*, BPF_F_*, BPF_PROG_TYPE_*, ETH_P_*, FPE_*,
38 IFF_*, IPPROTO_*, MAP_*, MS_*, MSG_*, NETLINK_*, PACKET_*, PROT_*, SCTP_*,
39 SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_*, SEGV_*, SEM_*, SHM_*, SW_*, V4L2_CID_*,
40 V4L2_CTRL_CLASS_*, and V4L2_PIX_FMT_* constants.
41 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.17.
44 * Fixed decoding of msgtyp argument of msgrcv syscall.
45 * Fixed fallback definitions for F_*, MCL_*, MSG_ZEROCOPY, SI_*,
46 and SOL_SOCKET constants.
48 Noteworthy changes in release 4.22 (2018-04-05)
49 ===============================================
51 * Changes in infrastructure
52 * The mailing list was moved to strace-devel@lists.strace.io.
53 * SourceForge git repository
54 (https://sourceforge.net/p/strace/code/ci/master/tree/) is no longer
55 maintained. Please use GitLab (https://gitlab.com/strace/strace/)
56 or GitHub (https://github.com/strace/strace/) repository instead.
58 * Changes in behaviour
59 * When printing string data, '8' and '9' following an octal escape sequence
60 no longer lead to unabbreviated octal escape sequence output, as they used
62 * Angle brackets are now printed as octal number escape sequences
63 in the output of paths associated with file descriptors.
64 * Data dump for write syscalls (-e write) is performed regardless
65 of successfulness of these syscall (addresses Debian bug #436284).
66 * -r and -t options are now affect output independently. Previously,
67 -r option led to ignoring of the -t option (addresses Debian bug #466195).
70 * Implemented delay injection (-e inject=SET:delay_enter= and
71 -e inject=SET:delay_exit= options).
72 * Added -A option for opening output files in append mode
73 (addresses Debian bug #528488).
74 * IPv6 addresses shown in socket information in -yy mode are now printed
76 * Enhanced decoding of bpf, prctl and ptrace syscalls.
77 * Enhanced decoding of BTRFS_IOC_INO_PATHS, BTRFS_IOC_LOGICAL_INO, and PTP_*
79 * Enhanced NETLINK_ROUTE protocol decoding.
80 * Updated lists of signal codes.
81 * Updated lists of BPF_*, BTN_*, ETH_P_*, INET_DIAG_BC_*, KEY_*, POLL*, RWF_*,
82 SCHED_FLAG_*, SCTP_* and error constants.
83 * Implemented block/character device number printing in -yy mode.
84 * Known pixel/SDR format names are printed as comments for pixelformat fields
86 * Enhanced decoding of kern_features syscall.
87 * Enhanced NETLINK_NETFILTER netlink protocol decoder.
88 * Optimized handling of large number of tracees.
89 * Improved wall clock time measurement in syscall count statistics
91 * Extended the range of allowed values in -e inject=...:retval= expression.
93 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.16.
94 * Enhanced manual page.
97 * Fixed build on m68k.
98 * Fixed v4l2 pixelformat decoding on big-endian architectures.
101 Noteworthy changes in release 4.21 (2018-02-13)
102 ===============================================
104 * Changes in behaviour
105 * Warning is now issued when -F option is used.
106 * Warning is now issued when a tracee with unsupported personality
108 * Unknown syscall numbers are now printed in hexadecimal form.
111 * Implemented decoding of netlink descriptor attributes as file descriptors.
112 * Implemented decoding of hugetlb page size selection flags.
113 * Implemented decoding of BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN, BPF_PROG_GET_NEXT_ID,
114 BPF_MAP_GET_NEXT_ID, BPF_PROG_GET_FD_BY_ID, BPF_MAP_GET_FD_BY_ID,
115 and BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD commands of bpf syscall.
116 * Enhanced decoding of get_thread_area, memfd_create, modify_ldt,
117 perf_event_open, reboot, s390_guarded_storage, s390_pcio_mmio_read,
118 s390_pci_mmio_write, s390_runtime_instr, s390_sthyi, set_thread_area,
120 * Implemented decoding of KVM_* and DM_LIST_DEVICES ioctl commands.
121 * Implemented decoding of riscv_flush_icache syscall.
122 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscalls for SOL_NETLINK
124 * Enhanced decoding of BPF_MAP_CREATE command of bpf syscall.
125 * Print values returned by mq_open syscall and first arguments
126 of mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_timedreceive, and mq_timedsend syscalls
128 * Added decoding of get_tls syscall on arm.
129 * Added -e trace=%pure option for tracing system calls with no arguments that
131 * Updated lists of IPV6_*, MAP_*, MEMBARRIER_CMD_*, MSG_*, NT_*, PKEY_*,
132 SHM_*, and TCP_* constants.
133 * Added manual page for the strace-log-merge command.
134 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.15.
135 * Implemented biarch support for s390x.
136 * Implemented an optional support for symbol demangling in strace -k output
137 (activated by --with-libiberty configure option).
138 * Information about availability of demangling and reliable personality
139 decoding (on architectures with multiple personalities) is now available
141 * Added decoding of pkey_alloc, pkey_free, and pkey_mprotect syscalls on
142 powerpc and powerpc64.
143 * Enhanced manual page.
146 * Fixed multi-personality support in cross builds.
147 * Added mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_open, mq_timedreceive, and mq_timedsend
148 syscalls to %desc tracing set.
149 * Fixed path tracing support for mmap syscalls with indirect arguments and
150 for old select syscall.
151 * Fixed decoding of arm-specific (__ARM_NR_*) syscalls.
152 * Fixed open mode flags decoding.
153 * Fixed corner cases in handling of strace -ff -ttt logs by strace-log-merge.
154 * Error counts that exceed one billion are now printed correctly in call
156 * Fixed call summary header for x32 personality.
157 * Changes of tracee personalities are reported more reliably.
158 * Fixed the case when strace attaches to a tracee being inside exec and its
159 first syscall stop is syscall-exit-stop instead of syscall-enter-stop,
160 which messed up all the syscall state tracking.
161 * Fixed printing of higher 32 bits of the return value for x32 personality.
164 * A C compiler that supports "for" loop initial declarations is now required.
165 * Inability to configure multiple personality support on architectures where
166 multiple personalities are supported leads to configuration failure during
167 build now. Use --enable-mpers=check to revert to the old behaviour.
168 * Build-time requirement for the mpers support has been lowered from gawk 4
170 * Removed incomplete and non-functional support for the CRIS architecture.
171 * Removed incomplete and unused support for IA-32 mode on the IA-64
174 Noteworthy changes in release 4.20 (2017-11-13)
175 ===============================================
178 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_NETFILTER netlink message types and flags.
179 * Implemented decoding of SECCOMP_GET_ACTION_AVAIL operation of seccomp
181 * Updated lists of ARPHRD_*, BPF_*, ETH_P_*, LOOP_*, MADV_*,
182 MEMBARRIER_CMD_*, MFD_*, SECCOMP_*, SO_*, SOL_*, TCP_*, and UFFD_FEATURE_*
184 * Added decoding of statx syscall on hppa.
185 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.14.
188 * Fixed powerpc personality support on powerpc64.
190 Noteworthy changes in release 4.19 (2017-09-05)
191 ===============================================
193 * Changes in behaviour
194 * Changed formatting of personality names on tile architecture in order
195 to make it in line with other multi-personality architectures.
196 * Changed field output order in struct v4l2_requestbuffers to improve in/out
198 * Changed handling of multiple signal= specifications in an injection
199 expression: multiple specification now leads to error instead of implicit
200 usage the last specification.
203 * Enhanced decoding of optlen argument of getsockopt syscall.
204 * Enhanced decoding of SO_LINGER option of getsockopt and setsockopt syscalls.
205 * Enhanced decoding of SO_PEERCRED option of getsockopt syscall.
206 * Enhanced decoding of IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP,
207 IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, IPV6_DROP_MEMBERSHIP, IPV6_JOIN_ANYCAST,
208 IPV6_LEAVE_ANYCAST, MCAST_JOIN_GROUP, and MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP options
209 of setsockopt syscall.
210 * Enhanced decoding of KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE operation of keyctl syscall
211 (KDF parameters decoding).
212 * Implemented decoding of KEYCTL_RESTRICT_KEYRING operation of keyctl syscall.
213 * Enhanced decoding of UFFDIO_API ioctl command.
214 * Enhanced decoding of BPF_PROG_LOAD, BPF_MAP_CREATE, BPF_MAP_LOOKUP_ELEM,
215 and BPF_MAP_GET_NEXT_KEY commands of bpf syscall.
216 * Implemented decoding of linux socket filter programs specified
217 for SO_ATTACH_FILTER and SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_CBPF socket options.
218 * Implemented decoding of inet_diag_req_v2, inet_diag_req_compat,
219 packet_diag_msg, and smc_diag_msg netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
220 * Implemented NETLINK_SELINUX protocol specific decoding.
221 * Implemented decoding of netlink message ack flags.
222 * Implemented decoding of nlmsgerr netlink attributes.
223 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of NETLINK_CRYPTO.
224 * Implemented decoding of crypto_user_alg netlink attributes
226 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of addr, addrlabel, dcb, link,
227 mdb, neigh, neightbl, netconf, nsid, route, rule, tc, and tca messages
229 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT messages.
230 * Improved handling of unexpected tracees (the ones that cloned with
231 CLONE_PARENT/CLONE_PTRACE or called PTRACE_TRACEME on themselves): they
232 are now PTRACE_DETACH'ed instead of PTRACE_CONT'ed.
233 * Updated lists of BPF_*, KEY_*, RWF_*, SCM_*, SO_*, and *_MAGIC constants.
234 * Added decoding of arch_prctl syscall on x86.
235 * Added decoding of seccomp, bpf, userfaultfd, membarrier, mlock2,
236 copy_file_range, preadv2, pwritev2, and statx on alpha.
237 * Added decoding of statx syscall on microblaze.
238 * Added decoding of s390_guarded_storage syscall on s390.
239 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.13.
240 * Enhanced manual page.
243 * Fixed printing of group_req structure on non-native personalities.
244 * Fixed output formatting of blkpg_ioctl_arg, dm_name_list, and iocb
246 * Fixed formatting of nul-terminated strings which have kernel-imposed size
248 * Fixed printing of paths that hit PATM_MAX limit in order to match kernel's
250 * Fixed build warnings on Android mips64.
251 * Fixed unused function "is_negated_errno" build warning when built
253 * Fixed syscall number and arguments retrieval behaviour on sparc64 and
254 mips o32 after prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 0) makes PTRACE_PEEKTEXT impossible
255 to use if Linux kernel has commit v4.10-rc1~114^2~2.
256 * Fixed path tracing for execveat, symlink, symlinkat, inotify_add_watch,
257 and inotify_init syscalls.
258 * Fixed personality switch printing on sparc64 and risc-v.
260 Noteworthy changes in release 4.18 (2017-07-05)
261 ===============================================
264 * Implemented decoding of SCM_TIMESTAMP* control messages.
265 * Implemented decoding of netlink NLMSG_DONE messages.
266 * Implemented decoding of netlink generic nlmsg_type and nlmsg_flags.
267 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_AUDIT, NETLINK_NETFILTER, NETLINK_ROUTE,
268 NETLINK_SELINUX, NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG, and NETLINK_XFRM message types.
269 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_GENERIC protocol families.
270 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of AF_INET, AF_INET6,
271 AF_NETLINK, AF_PACKET, AF_SMC, and AF_UNIX messages of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
272 * Implemented basic decoding of netlink attributes.
273 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of AF_INET, AF_NETLINK,
274 AF_PACKET, AF_SMC, and AF_UNIX netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
275 * Implemented decoding of inet_diag_msg, netlink_diag_msg, and unix_diag_msg
276 netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
277 * Updated lists of ARPHRD_*, KEYCTL_*, NDIAG_SHOW_*, RTM_*, SCM_*, SCTP_*,
278 SO_*, V4L2_*, and prctl ARCH_* constants.
279 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.12.
282 * In interactive mode (-I2), those signals that were blocked at startup
283 will remain blocked for the whole period of strace execution.
284 * strace no longer resets SIGCHLD handler in tracees to the default action.
285 * When traced command is terminated by a blocked signal, strace unblocks
286 that signal to ensure its own termination with the same signal.
287 * Fixed corner cases in decoding of old sigaction syscall.
288 * Fixed build with old kernel headers on mips.
289 * Fixed build on aarch64 and tile with glibc >= 2.26.
290 * Fixed build on arc and nios2.
292 Noteworthy changes in release 4.17 (2017-05-24)
293 ===============================================
295 * Changes in command line syntax
296 * Syscall classes specified in -e trace= option now have % prefix (like
297 -e trace=%process). Old style class names without leading % are still
298 supported, but considered deprecated now.
301 * Optimized syscall filtering.
302 * Improved representation of timestamps.
303 * Enhanced decoding of sched_setattr syscall.
304 * Added -e trace=%stat option for tracing variants of stat syscall.
305 * Added -e trace=%lstat option for tracing variants of lstat syscall.
306 * Added -e trace=%fstat option for tracing variants of fstat and fstatat
308 * Added -e trace=%%stat option for tracing syscalls used for querying file
309 status information (stat, lstat, fstat, fstatat, statx, and their
311 * Added -e trace=%statfs option for tracing statfs, statfs64 and statvfs
313 * Added -e trace=%fstatfs option for tracing fstatfs, fstatfs64 and fstatvfs
315 * Added -e trace=%%statfs option for tracing syscalls used for querying file
316 system statistics information (statfs-like, fstatfs-like and ustat).
317 * Added -e trace=/regex option for filtering syscalls using regular
319 * Added support for prepending of question mark before syscall qualification
320 in -e trace expressions in order to suppress error in case no syscalls
321 matched the provided qualification.
322 * Implemented decoding of signal mask in rt_sigreturn syscall on alpha, arc,
323 arm, avr32, bfin, cris, hppa, m68k, metag, microblaze, mips, nios2, or1k,
324 powerpc, powerpc64, riscv, sh, sh64, sparc, sparc64, tile, x86, and xtensa
326 * Implemented decoding of statx syscall.
327 * Implemented decoding of NS_* ioctl commands.
328 * Implemented decoding of the remaining V4L2_BUF_TYPE_* types.
329 * Implemented decoding of VIDIOC_[SG]_TUNER ioctl commands.
330 * Implemented decoding of NLMSG_ERROR netlink messages.
331 * Improved decoding of BPF_PROG_ATTACH command of bpf syscall.
332 * Improved decoding of misplaced parts in DM_* ioctl commands.
333 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.11.
336 * Fixed decoding of flags argument of preadv2 and pwritev2 syscalls on x32.
337 * Fixed the number of arguments and tracing flags of alpha specific syscalls.
338 * Fixed decoding of old sigsuspend syscall on alpha, cris, mips, powerpc,
339 powerpc64, sh, sh64, sparc, and sparc64.
340 * Fixed decoding of sgetmask and ssetmask syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
341 * Fixed decoding of netlink messages received within struct msghdr.
342 * Worked around a bug in miscompiled aarch64 kernels leading to the 3rd
343 argument of sched_getattr syscall being not quite 32-bit.
344 * Fixed corner cases of printing inaccessible times argument of utimes
345 and futimesat syscalls.
347 Noteworthy changes in release 4.16 (2017-02-14)
348 ===============================================
351 * Implemented syscall return value injection (-e inject=SET:retval= option).
352 * Implemented signal injection (-e inject=SET:signal= option).
353 * Implemented decoding of SUID_DUMP_* constants in PR_[GS]ET_DUMPABLE.
354 * Implemented decoding of all SG_* ioctl commands.
355 * Implemented decoding of ustat syscall.
356 * Implemented decoding of BPF_OBJ_PIN, BPF_OBJ_GET, BPF_PROG_ATTACH,
357 and BPF_PROG_DETACH commands of bpf syscall.
358 * Enhanced decoding of sg_io_hdr and sg_io_v4 structures.
359 * Enhanced decoding of get_robust_list, getrandom, io_submit, set_robust_list
361 * Enhanced decoding of entities of kernel long type on x32 and mips n32 ABIs.
362 * Updated lists of IP_*, IPV6_*, and LOOP_* constants.
363 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.10.
364 * Added decoding of recently added syscalls on avr32, microblaze, ppc,
368 * Fixed pathmatch of oldselect syscall on 64-bit architectures.
369 * Fixed decoding of mmap2 syscall on s390 when arguments are not available.
370 * Fixed decoding of kexec_file_load, mprotect, pkey_mprotect, prctl, preadv*,
371 and pwritev* syscalls on x32.
372 * Fixed printing of string arguments of getxattr and setxattr syscalls
373 when -s option is used to limit the printed string size.
374 * Fixed decoding of ifconf, ifreq, and loop_info structures on non-native
376 * Fixed decoding of SG_* and LOOP_* ioctl commands.
377 * Fixed build on mips with musl libc.
378 * Fixed cross-building of ioctlsort.
379 * Applied minor formatting fixes to the manual page.
381 Noteworthy changes in release 4.15 (2016-12-14)
382 ===============================================
384 * Changes in behavior
385 * Time stamps are now printed according to ISO 8601.
386 * Changed output format of val3 parameter of futex FUTEX_WAKE_OP operation.
387 * The last argument of mincore, sched_getaffinity, and sched_setaffinity
388 syscalls is now formatted as an array.
391 * Implemented syscall fault injection (-e fault=... option).
392 * Implemented decoding of DM_* ioctl commands.
393 * Implemented decoding of attr parameter of perf_event_open syscall.
394 * Implemented decoding of pkey_alloc, pkey_free, and pkey_mprotect syscalls.
395 * Implemented dumping of mq_timedsend and mq_timedreceive syscalls.
396 * Implemented decoding of PR_SET_FP_MODE and PR_GET_FP_MODE operations
398 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on m68k.
399 * Updated lists of ARCH_*, BPF_*, BTRFS_*, FALLOC_*, MS_*, *_MAGIC,
400 and V4L2_* constants.
401 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.9.
402 * Added decoding of recently added syscalls on arc, x32, and xtensa.
403 * Enhanced manual page.
406 * Fixed corner cases in decoding of exit, exit_group, futimesat, getgroups,
407 getresuid, init_module, inotify_init1, kcmp, kexec_load, lookup_dcookie,
408 mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_open, mq_timedreceive, mq_timedsend,
409 name_to_handle_at, prctl, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, setfsuid,
410 setgroups, setns, unshare, and utimes syscalls.
411 * Fixed handling of verbose flag in printing of controls array
412 of struct v4l2_ext_controls.
413 * Fixed omission of field names in the output of capability, sigaction,
414 sigevent, statfs, timespec, timeval, and utimbuf structures.
415 * Fixed printing of unknown syscalls in siginfo structure.
416 * Fixed decoding of ioctl constants on m68k.
417 * Fixed cris architecture support.
418 * Fixed cross build when host compiler does not support the same
419 set of warning flags as the cross compiler.
420 * Fixed build on SLE10 and SLE11.
422 Noteworthy changes in release 4.14 (2016-10-04)
423 ===============================================
425 * Changes in behavior
426 * When using -p option without a command and no processes has been attached,
427 strace exits with exit status 1.
430 * Added printing of the mode argument of open and openat syscalls
431 when O_TMPFILE flag is set. (Addresses Fedora bug #1377846).
432 * Enhanced -e abbrev=set, -e raw=set, and -e verbose=set.
433 * Enhanced decoding of futex, keyctl, quotactl, timerfd_settime,
434 and aio family syscalls.
435 * Implemented fetching of the 7th subcall argument on mips o32.
436 * Updated lists of BPF_*, ETH_P_*, KEXEC_ARCH_*, SCTP_*, TCP_*, and *_MAGIC
438 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.8.
439 * Added decoding of new syscalls on sh and sh64.
440 * Added RISC-V architecture support.
443 * Marked io_setup and io_destroy as memory mapping related syscalls.
444 * Fixed leakage of placeholder descriptors to tracees.
445 * Fixed printing of mode_t, umode_t, and umask types.
446 * Fixed decoding of iovec arrays without a limit on total data size.
447 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, futex, keyctl, quotactl, readahead,
448 and ipc family syscalls.
449 * Fixed decoding of invalid syscalls mapped to indirect subcalls.
450 * Fixed decoding of struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args_v2 on non-native
452 * Fixed decoding of PTRACE_DETACH on sparc and sparc64.
453 * Fixed decoding of struct stat64 on sparc64.
454 * Fixed decoding of uid and gid-related syscalls on sparc64.
455 * Fixed decoding of the forth argument of semctl syscall on sparc64.
456 * Fixed values of tty ioctl constants on sparc64.
457 * Fixed sparc personality support on sparc64.
459 Noteworthy changes in release 4.13 (2016-07-26)
460 ===============================================
463 * Implemented a general netlink socket parser.
464 * Enhanced decoding of socket addresses.
465 * Enhanced decoding of cmsghdr, msghdr, and mmsghdr structures.
466 * Enhanced decoding of accept, accept4, bind, getpeername, getsockname,
467 ipc, recvfrom, recvmsg, recvmmsg, sendto, sendmmsg, and socketcall syscalls.
468 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, KEY_*, KEYCTL_*, RWF_*, SS_*,
469 and *_MAGIC constants.
470 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.7.
473 * Fixed decoding of pid_t argument of prlimit64 syscall.
474 * Fixed sign extension issues in the parser of struct rusage.
475 * Fixed race condition in decoding of timeout argument of recvmmsg and
476 rt_sigtimedwait syscalls.
477 * Fixed build with fresh linux kernel headers.
479 Noteworthy changes in release 4.12 (2016-05-31)
480 ===============================================
483 * Implemented simultaneous use of -p option and tracing of a command.
484 (addresses Debian bug #549942).
485 * Implemented caching of netlink conversations to reduce amount of time
486 spent in decoding socket details in -yy mode.
487 * Implemented -yy mode decoding of protocol:portid pairs associated with
488 netlink socket descriptors.
489 * Implemented decoding of copy_file_range, preadv2, and pwritev2 syscalls.
490 * Implemented dumping of preadv, preadv2, pwritev, pwritev2, and vmsplice
492 * Implemented decoding of BTRFS_* and UFFDIO_* ioctl commands.
493 * Enhanced decoding of BLK*, EVIOC*, RTC_*, and VIDIOC_* ioctl commands.
494 * Enhanced decoding of fstatfs, fstatfs64, get_mempolicy, getdents,
495 getdents64, getgroups, getpriority, kill, mbind, migrate_pages, mknod,
496 mknodat, personality, poll, ppoll, quotactl, rt_sigpending,
497 rt_sigqueueinfo, rt_sigtimedwait, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sched_getaffinity,
498 sched_setaffinity, seccomp, set_mempolicy, setgroups, setpriority, statfs,
499 statfs64, tgkill, waitid, and xattr family syscalls.
500 * Enhanced decoding of getxpid, getxuid, and getxgid syscalls on alpha.
501 * Enhanced decoding of pipe syscall on alpha, ia64, mips, sh, and sparc.
502 * Added decoding of bind, listen, and setsockopt direct syscalls on sparc.
503 * Added decoding of osf_statfs64 and osf_fstatfs64 syscalls on alpha.
504 * Added decoding of fadvise64 and fadvise64_64 on s390.
505 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, CLONE_*, EPOLL*, IPV6_*, MADV_*,
506 MSG_*, PTRACE_*, SEGV_*, SO_*, SOL_*, *_MAGIC, and quotactl constants.
507 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.6.
510 * Fixed build on arc, metag, nios2, or1k, and tile architectures.
511 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit times syscall return value on 64-bit architectures.
512 * Fixed decoding of mlock2 syscall on sparc.
513 * Fixed decoding of osf_shmat syscall on alpha.
514 * Fixed decoding of syscalls unknown to the kernel on s390/s390x.
515 (addresses Debian bug #485979 and Fedora bug #1298294).
516 * Fixed decoding of preadv syscall in case of short read.
517 * Fixed decoding and dumping of readv syscall in case of short read.
518 * Fixed dumping of recvmsg and recvmmsg syscalls in case of short read.
519 * Fixed decoding of mincore syscall's last argument.
520 * Fixed remaining errors in mapping between syscall numbers and numbers
521 of syscall arguments.
522 * Applied various fixes to strace-graph script.
524 Noteworthy changes in release 4.11 (2015-12-21)
525 ===============================================
527 * Changes in behavior
528 * Some syscalls have different names depending on architecture and
529 personality. In these cases, syscall filtering and printing now
530 consistently uses the names that match corresponding __NR_* kernel
531 macros of the tracee's architecture and personality.
532 * Added strace prefix to all diagnostic messages.
535 * Enhanced and extended test suite.
536 * Implemented reliable tracing of processes whose personality differs
537 from the personality of strace, fixed decoding of 32-bit personality
538 syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
539 * When some data referenced by syscall arguments is irrelevant or cannot
540 be read from tracee's memory, strace now prints its address consistently.
541 * When a syscall is restarted using restart_syscall mechanism, strace now
542 shows the syscall name on architectures that expose this information.
543 * Print values returned by epoll_create1, eventfd, eventfd2, fanotify_init,
544 inotify_init1, perf_event_open, pipe, pipe2, signalfd, signalfd4, socket,
545 socketpair, timerfd, and timerfd_create syscalls, as well as F_DUPFD and
546 F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC fcntl commands, as file descriptors.
547 * Optimized decoding of indirect socket syscalls.
548 * Implemented decoding of nanoseconds along with seconds in stat family
549 syscalls (addresses Fedora bug #1251176).
550 * Implemented decoding of struct statfs.f_flags in statfs syscall.
551 * Implemented decoding of siginfo_t.si_syscall and siginfo_t.si_arch
553 * Implemented decoding of indirect syscall on mips o32.
554 * Implemented decoding of IPPROTO_IP control messages.
555 * Implemented decoding of setsockopt syscall multicast arguments.
556 * Enhanced decoding of struct sigevent.
557 * Enhanced decoding of block, loop, mtd, ptp, rtc, SG_IO, socket, tty,
558 and v4l2 ioctl syscall arguments.
559 * Enhanced decoding of epoll_create, fcntl, fcntl64, futex, getdents,
560 getdents64, getsockopt, io_*, mount, msgctl, prctl, quotactl, recvfrom,
561 sendfile, setsockopt, and shmctl syscalls.
562 * Implemented decoding of bpf, execveat, ioperm, iopl, kcmp, kexec_file_load,
563 lookup_dcookie, membarrier, memfd_create, mlock2, name_to_handle_at,
564 open_by_handle_at, sched_getattr, sched_setattr, and userfaultfd syscalls.
565 * Updated lists of AF_*, EPOLL_*, FALLOC_FL_*, F_*, INPUT_PROP_*, IPPROTO_*,
566 IPV6_*, IP_*, KEY_*, LOCK_*, MNT_*, MS_*, PACKET_*, PERF_FLAG_*, PF_*,
567 PR_*, PTRACE_O_*, RENAME_*, SCTP_*, SECBIT_*, SO_*, TCP_*, and siginfo_t
569 * Added Nios II architecture support.
570 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 4.4.
573 * Fixed potential short read of strings from tracee's memory.
574 * Fixed -qq option in conjunction with -o option.
575 * Fixed filtering of <unavailable> syscalls.
576 * Fixed decoding of ioctl syscall command on aarch64 and 32-bit architectures
577 with 64-bit aligned structures.
578 * Fixed decoding of eventfd2, epoll_create1, signalfd4, and sync_file_range2
579 syscall flags arguments.
580 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of clock_nanosleep syscall.
581 * Fixed decoding of getpagesize syscall on m68k.
582 * Fixed decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls on aarch64.
583 * Fixed decoding of timezone argument of gettimeofday and settimeofday
585 * Fixed decoding of offset argument of mmap2 syscall on arm, sparc,
587 * Fixed decoding of pipe syscall on alpha and mips.
588 * Fixed decoding of pipe2 syscall on ia64, sh, sparc, and sparc64.
589 * Fixed decoding of signal mask argument of pselect6 syscall on x32.
590 * Fixed decoding of signal mask of rt_sigreturn syscall on aarch64, m68k,
592 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of semctl indirect syscall.
593 * Fixed decoding of sa_restorer and sa_mask of sigaction syscall on m68k.
594 * Fixed decoding of statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls on arm eabi.
595 * Fixed decoding of struct dirent on x32.
596 * Fixed decoding of times syscall return value on mips n32 and x32.
597 * Fixed decoding of path argument of umount2 syscall
598 (addresses Debian bug #785050).
599 * Worked around a kernel bug in tracing privileged executables.
600 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
601 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
604 Noteworthy changes in release 4.10 (2015-03-06)
605 ===============================================
608 * Added -yy option to print protocol and address information associated with
610 * Extended "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" options to cover sendmsg,
611 recvmsg, sendmmsg, and recvmmsg syscalls.
612 * Implemented full 32-bit decoding of ioctl commands
613 (addresses Debian bug #692913 and Fedora bug #902788).
614 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on ia64.
615 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on mips.
616 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGSET API support on s390/s390x.
617 * Implemented decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls.
618 * Implemented full decoding of 64-bit capability sets.
619 * Implemented decoding of all prctl commands.
620 * Implemented decoding of parametrized ioctl commands.
621 * Implemented decoding of evdev ioctl commands.
622 * Implemented decoding of v4l ioctl commands.
623 * Implemented decoding of SG_IO v4 ioctl commands.
624 * Implemented decoding of FIFREEZE/FITHAW/FITRIM ioctl commands.
625 * Implemented decoding of FALLOC_FL_* fallocate flags.
626 * Implemented decoding of rt_sigreturn signal mask on aarch64,
628 * Enhanced socket decoder to support bluetooth sockets.
629 * Enhanced decoding of unlisted ioctl commands.
630 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscall.
631 * Enhanced decoding of sysinfo syscall.
632 * Enhanced decoding of struct cmsghdr.
633 * Enhanced decoding of wait status.
634 * Enhanced aio support on non-x86 architectures by using external libaio.h.
635 * Added O_TMPFILE to the list of recognized open mode flags.
636 * Updated the list of filesystem type constants that is used in decoding
637 statfs family syscalls.
638 * Updated lists of CAP_*, PR_*, PTRACE_*, SCHED_*, SO_*, SOL_*, SWAP_FLAG_*,
640 * Updated lists of signal constants from Linux 3.19.
641 * Updated lists of errno constants from Linux 3.19.
642 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 3.9.
643 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.19.
646 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
647 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
649 * Fixed quoting issues in printing descriptors, filenames, network interface
650 names, struct utsname members, device/volume names of BLK* ioctl commands.
651 * Fixed uid_t/git_t decoding.
652 * Fixed potential out-of-bounds read issues in getdents/getdents64 decoders.
653 * Fixed potential open flags truncation on some architectures.
654 * Fixed decoding of struct ifreq.ifr_name.
655 * Fixed decoding of SIOCSIFNAME ioctl command.
656 * Fixed decoding of RENAME_* renameat2 flags.
657 * Fixed decoding of UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT timeval structures.
658 * Fixed decoding of indirect ipc subcalls on some architectures.
659 * Fixed decoding of fanotify_mark syscall on 32-bit architectures.
660 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit stat structures on 64-bit architectures.
661 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit struct cmsghdr on 64-bit architectures.
662 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit preadv/pwritev offset on 64-bit architectures.
663 * Fixed decoding of sigreturn/rt_sigreturn signal mask on ia64, ppc, ppc64,
664 sparc, sparc64, mips, and s390.
665 * Fixed instruction pointer output (-i option) on architectures that support
666 several personalities.
667 * Fixed behaviour of "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" when read and write
669 * Fixed build on systems where struct sigaction has no sa_restorer member.
670 * Fixed build with uclibc and musl libc.
673 * Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required.
674 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_SETOPTIONS support will not work.
675 * On mips, linux kernel >= 2.6.15 is required.
676 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work.
677 * On s390 and s390x, linux kernel >= 2.6.27 is required.
678 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGSET support will not work.
680 Noteworthy changes in release 4.9 (2014-08-15)
681 ==============================================
683 * Changes in behavior
684 * Disabled OABI support on ARM EABI systems by default,
685 added --enable-arm-oabi option to enable it at configure time.
688 * Added experimental -k option to print stack trace after each traced syscall.
689 * Added -w option to produce stats on syscall latency.
690 (addresses Debian bug #457497).
691 * Added ARC architecture support.
692 * Added PTRACE_GETREGS API support on PowerPC.
693 * Enhanced Bionic libc and musl libc support.
694 * Enhanced tracing of x86 personality processes on x86_64 and x32.
695 * Enhanced tracing of ARM personality processes on AArch64.
696 * Enhanced 32/64bit personality detection on PowerPC.
697 * Implemented decoding of add_key, ioprio_get, ioprio_set, kexec_load, keyctl,
698 renameat2, and request_key syscalls.
699 * Robustified decoding of select, pselect, and io_submit syscalls.
700 * Enhanced decoding of delete_module, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, fcntl,
701 setdomainname, sethostname, setns, and sync_file_range syscalls.
702 * Enhanced decoding of signal bitmasks.
703 * Enhanced decoding of file descriptors.
704 * Enhanced siginfo_t decoding.
705 * Enhanced PF_NETLINK decoding.
706 * Updated CLOCK_* constants
707 (addresses Fedora bug #1088455).
708 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.16.
711 * Added shmat and shmdt to the set of memory mapping related syscalls.
712 * Fixed detaching from stopped processes.
713 * Fixed fanotify_mark decoding on 32bit architectures.
714 * Fixed offset decoding in preadv and pwritev syscalls.
715 * Fixed select decoding for glibc in _FORTIFY_SOURCE mode.
716 * Fixed decoding of epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_DEL argument.
717 * Fixed build when <sys/ptrace.h> and <linux/ptrace.h> conflict
718 (addresses Fedora bug #993384).
719 * Miscellaneous corrections in the manual page.
720 (Addresses Debian bug #725987).
722 Noteworthy changes in release 4.8 (2013-06-03)
723 ==============================================
725 * Changes in behavior
726 * In case of normal strace termination, when the trace output is
727 redirected to a pipe, strace now closes it and waits for the pipe
728 process termination before exit.
731 * Implemented tracing using PTRACE_SEIZE API (when available).
732 * Implemented more reliable PTRACE_GETREGSET-based process personality
733 detection on x86-64 and x32 (when available).
734 * Added -e trace=memory option for tracing memory mapping related syscalls.
735 * Documented -b option.
736 * Allowed exit status messages to be suppressed by giving -q option twice.
737 * Added AArch64 architecture support
738 (addresses Debian bug #693074 and Fedora bug #969858).
739 * Added support for OpenRISC 1000, Meta, and Xtensa architectures.
740 * Added tilegx personality support for Tile.
741 * Enhanced support of NOMMU architectures.
742 * Enhanced decoding of getdents, mmap, perf_event_open, ptrace, and
744 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.9.
745 * Regenerated the list of common ioctl names from Linux 3.9.
746 * Updated the list of errno constants.
747 * Updated lists of AF_*, MADV_*, MAP_*, MSG_*, MS_*, PF_*, PR_*,
748 PTRACE_O_*, and TCP_* constants.
749 * Implemented decoding of UBI ioctls.
750 * Removed redundant "*32" ioctl names.
753 * Fixed ERESTARTNOINTR leaking to userspace on ancient kernels
754 (addresses Fedora bug #659382).
755 * Fixed kernel release string parsing
756 (addresses Debian bug #702309).
757 * Fixed decoding of *xattr syscalls
758 (addresses Fedora bug #885233).
759 * Fixed handling of files with 64-bit inode numbers by 32-bit strace
760 (addresses Fedora bug #912790).
761 * Fixed tracing forks on SPARC.
762 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, ftruncate64, io_submit, pread,
763 preadv, pwrite, pwritev, readahead, sigaltstack, sync_file_range, sysctl,
764 and truncate64 syscalls.
765 * Fixed categories of multiple syscalls on most of supported architectures.
766 * Fixed decoding of non-native 32-bit personality recv[m]msg syscalls.
767 * Fixed decoding of multiple 32-bit personality syscalls on x32.
768 * Fixed decoding of long long syscall arguments on ARM, MIPS/o32, PowerPC,
769 S390x, and Tile architectures.
770 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on S390x.
771 * Fixed sram_alloc decoding on Blackfin.
772 * Fixed build when process_vm_readv is a stab.
773 * Fixed build with older versions of libaio.h.
775 Noteworthy changes in release 4.7 (2012-05-02)
776 ==============================================
778 * Changes in behavior
779 * strace no longer suspends waitpid until there is a child
780 for waitpid'ing process to collect status from.
781 * strace no longer detaches from a tracee which is supposed
783 * strace now issues a new message: "+++ exited with EXITCODE +++"
784 which shows exact moment strace got exit notification,
785 analogous to existing "+++ killed by SIG +++" message.
788 * Added x32 personality support (x86_64 architecture).
789 * Added -y and -P options to print file descriptor paths and
790 filter by those paths.
791 * Added -I option to control strace interactivity.
792 * Allowed -p option to take comma or whitespace-separated list of PIDs.
793 * Added strace_log_merge script helper to merge timestamped "strace -ff"
795 * Implemented decoding of clock_adjtime, get_robust_list, migrate_pages,
796 preadv, prlimit64, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, pwritev,
797 recvmmsg, recvmsg, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sendmmsg, setns, set_robust_list,
798 sched_rr_get_interval, splice, syslog, tee and vmsplice syscalls.
799 * Enhanced decoding of capget, capset, getrlimit, flistxattr, io_submit,
800 listxattr, setrlimit and swapon syscalls.
801 * Implemented decoding of loop and mtd ioctls.
802 * Added syscall entries for new linux syscalls.
803 * Added syscall entries for direct socket system calls on powerpc.
804 * Updated the list of errno constants.
805 * Updated lists of MSG_*, STA_*, and TCP_* constants.
806 * Regenerated the list of ioctl names from Linux 3.3.
807 * Enhanced switching between processes with different personalities.
808 * Enhanced signals reporting by using short signal names.
809 * Made ERESTART* messages more descriptive.
810 * Made parsing of numbers from strings more robust.
811 * Added support for compat_statfs64 and statfs64.f_flags.
812 * Changed read of data blocks to use single process_vm_readv syscall
813 (when available) instead of several PTRACE_PEEKDATA operations.
814 * Changed read of registers on x86 and x86-64 to use single PTRACE_GETREGS
815 operation instead of several PTRACE_PEEKUSER operations.
816 * Applied various optimizations to make strace work faster.
819 * Implemented proper handling of real SIGTRAPs on kernels supporting
820 PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD.
821 (Addresses Fedora bug #162774).
822 * Fixed sockaddr_un.sun_path name in decoded output.
823 (Addresses Debian bug #554946).
824 * Fixed to avoid potential core file clobbering on exit.
825 (Addresses Debian bug #656398).
826 * Fixed a typo in documentation.
827 (Addresses Debian bug #653309).
828 * Fixed decoding of timer id returned by timer_create.
829 * Fixed epoll_create1, epoll_wait and epoll_pwait decoding.
830 * Fixed *at syscalls flags decoding.
831 * Fixed ARM EABI 64-bit syscall's arguments decoding.
832 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on s390.
833 * Fixed osf_sigprocmask decoding on alpha.
834 * Fixed ipc and socket subcall decoding on several architectures.
835 * Corrected syscall entries for epoll_pwait, epoll_create, epoll_ctl,
836 epoll_wait, mincore, mlockall, prctl, reboot, sendfile, sendfile64,
837 sendmsg, sgetmask, ssetmask, swapon, tgkill and tkill syscalls.
838 * Corrected io_* syscall entries on ARM.
839 * Fixed PID prefix printing in "strace -oLOG -ff -p1 -p2 -p3" case.
840 * Fixed logging of unfinished lines in "strace -oLOG -ff" case.
841 * Fixed build when libaio-devel is not available.
842 * Fixed configure checks for PTRACE_* constants.
843 * Fixed compilation warnings remained on several architectures.
846 * Removed all non-Linux code. After years of neglect, that dead code
847 just hampered further strace development.
848 * Linux kernel >= 2.6.18 is recommended. Older versions might still
849 work but they haven't been thoroughly tested with this release.
851 Noteworthy changes in release 4.6 (2011-03-15)
852 ==============================================
854 * Changes in behavior
855 * Print diagnostic information about changes in personality mode to
856 standard error instead of standard output.
859 * Implemented a new method of following clone, fork, and vfork
860 syscalls using the Linux kernel's explicit facilities for tracing
861 creation of threads and child processes.
862 * Implemented CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_UNTRACED flags handling.
863 * Implemented decoding of TLS syscalls on m68k.
864 * Implemented biarch support on powerpc64.
865 * Implemented biarch support for getrlimit() and setrlimit().
866 * Implemented decoding of struct ucred in getsockopt SO_PEERCRED.
867 * Implemented SOL_SCTP socket options decoding.
868 * Added HDIO_* ioctl names.
869 (Addresses Debian bug #450953).
870 * Added LOOP_* ioctl names.
871 * Updated lists of CLOCK_*, CLONE_*, MS_*, and SOL_* constants
872 to match Linux 2.6.37.
873 * Updated the list of IPPROTO_* constants to match netinet/in.h.
874 * Implemented decoding of HDIO_* and BLK* ioctls.
875 * Added MicroBlaze architecture support.
876 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 2.6.37.
877 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from Linux 2.6.37.
878 * Enhanced signal notification decoding.
879 * Documented -C and -D options.
882 * Fixed fetching syscall arguments on m68k.
883 * Fixed an error when judging whether a process has children.
884 * Fixed get/set_robust_list syscall numbers for powerpc.
885 * Fixed a corner case in printing clone flags.
886 * Fixed cross-compiling issues.
887 * Fixed build issues on powerpc64, SH and SPARC.
888 * Fixed syscall flags of fstatat*, mmap, mmap2, fadvise64*, swapoff,
889 fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, epoll_create, fallocate,
890 fanotify_init, and fanotify_mark syscalls.
891 * Fixed decoding of get[ug]id, gete[ug]id and setfs[ug]id return values.
892 * Fixed biarch support in IO dumping.
893 * Fixed raw exit_group decoding.
894 * Fixed decoding of file descriptors on 64-bit architectures.
895 * Fixed a corner case in waitpid handling.
896 (Addresses Red Hat bug #663547).
897 * Fixed stat64 decoding on mips
898 (Addresses Debian bug #599028).
899 * Fixed misleading italics in the manual page.
900 (Addresses Debian bug #589323).
902 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.20 (2010-04-13)
903 =================================================
906 * Implemented decoding of new linux syscalls: inotify_init1, recvmmsg.
907 * Implemented basic decoding of new linux syscalls: preadv, pwritev,
908 rt_tgsigqueueinfo, perf_event_open.
909 * Enhanced decoding of recently added syscalls on non-x86 architectures
910 by replacing a bare decoder with elaborate parsers enabled earlier
912 * Implemented -C option to combine regular and -c output.
913 (Addresses Debian bug #466196)
914 * Enhanced decoding of mbind and mremap syscalls.
915 * Enhanced SOL_PACKET socket options decoding.
916 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from linux 2.6.33.
917 * Added TILE architecture support.
920 * Fixed build with Linux kernel headers 2.6.32-rc5+.
921 (Addresses Debian bug #560516 and Fedora bug #539044)
922 * Fixed build on mips.
923 * Fixed handling of Linux systems without struct statfs64.
924 * Fixed reporting signal mask by sigreturn on powerpc.
925 * Fixed potential stack buffer overflow in select decoder.
926 (Addresses Fedora bug #556678)
927 * Corrected msgsnd indirect ipccall decoding.
928 * Corrected decoding of 64bit syscalls.
929 (Addresses Debian bug #570603)
930 * Corrected getsockopt decoding on architectures where
931 sizeof(long) > sizeof(int).
932 (Addresses Debian bug #494844)
933 * Corrected decoding of epoll_pwait.
934 (Addresses Debian bug #513014)
935 * Corrected handling of killed threads.
937 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.19 (2009-10-21)
938 =================================================
940 * Changes in behavior
941 * When command exits, strace now exits with the same exit status.
942 If command is terminated by a signal, strace terminates itself
943 with the same signal, so that strace can be used as a wrapper
944 process transparent to the invoking parent process.
945 When using -p option, the exit status of strace is zero unless
946 there was an unexpected error in doing the tracing.
947 (Addresses Fedora bug #105371 and Debian bug #37665)
950 * Implemented decoding of new Linux syscalls: accept4, dup3,
951 epoll_create1, eventfd2, inotify_init1, pipe2, signalfd4.
952 * Implemented decoding of socket type flags introduced in Linux 2.6.27.
953 * Implemented decoding of accept4 socketcall.
954 * Enhanced prctl decoding.
955 * Enhanced nanosleep decoding.
956 * Enhanced ptrace decoding.
957 * Enhanced futex decoding.
958 * Enhanced CAP_* decoding.
959 * Enhanced SIOCS* ioctls decoding.
960 * Enhanced fcntl F_* flags decoding.
961 * Enhanced semop/semtimedop decoding.
962 * Updated ARM architecture support.
963 * Added Blackfin architecture support.
964 * Added AVR32 architecture support.
965 * Added CRIS architecture support.
966 * Made strace detect when traced process suddenly disappeared.
969 * Fixed syscall numbers for tee and sync_file_range.
970 (Addresses Debian bug #503124)
971 * Fixed several bugs in strings decoder, including potential heap
973 (Addresses Fedora bugs #470529, #478324 and #511035)
974 * Marked sendfile(2) as a network syscall.
975 (Addresses Debian bug #509499)
976 * Fixed accept(2) decoding.
977 (Addresses Debian bug #507573)
978 * Fixed sigtimedwait(2) decoding.
979 * Fixed build on ARM EABI.
980 (Addresses Debian bugs #520084 and #535564, and Fedora bug #507576)
981 * Fixed display of 32-bit fcntl(F_SETLK) on 64-bit architectures.
982 (Addresses Red Hat bug #471169)
983 * Fixed display of 32-bit argv array on 64-bit architectures.
984 (Addresses Fedora bug #519480)
985 * Fixed display of 32-bit struct sigaction on 64-bit architectures.
986 * Fixed HPPA architecture support.
987 (Addresses Debian bugs #437928 and #546619)
992 * Support new Linux/PPC system call subpage_prot and PROT_SAO flag.
993 * In sigaction system call, display sa_flags value along with SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
998 * -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now.
999 * Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits.
1000 * Improved output for prctl system call on Linux.
1001 * Improved support for Linux/ARM.
1002 * SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND.
1007 * Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux.
1008 * Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux.
1009 * Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd,
1010 eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait.
1015 * Several biarch improvements.
1016 * Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
1017 * Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
1022 * Accept numeric system calls in -e.
1027 * Introduce "-e trace=desc".
1032 * Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
1033 * Update PowerPC system calls.
1034 * Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
1038 * Quick fix release for build issues.
1039 * One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
1044 * Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
1049 * Improve socket ioctl printing.
1050 * Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
1051 * Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
1052 * Improve mount flags printing.
1053 * Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
1058 * Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
1059 * Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
1060 * Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
1061 * Improve ioctl command name matching.
1062 * Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
1063 * Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
1064 * Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
1069 * Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
1070 * Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
1071 * Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
1072 * Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
1076 * Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
1077 * David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
1085 * Update Linux ioctl lists.
1086 * Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
1087 * The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
1092 * On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
1093 * Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
1098 * Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
1099 * Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
1104 * Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
1108 * New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
1109 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
1110 * Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
1111 * New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
1112 * Merged s390/s390x port.
1113 * Trace an unbounded number of processes.
1114 * Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
1115 * Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
1116 * Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
1117 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
1118 * Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
1119 * Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
1120 * Many other bug fixes.
1124 * Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
1125 * Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
1126 Improve the ioctl extractor as well so we decode some more ones.
1130 * compile fixes for Linux/mips
1134 * Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
1135 * The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
1136 * Linux ioctl list updated
1137 * Support IPv6 scope ids
1138 * FreeBSD/i386 port added
1139 * UnixWare and Solaris updates
1140 * Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
1144 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
1145 * Linux/S390 port added
1146 * The usual Linux syscall updates
1147 * we can follow fork on arm now
1151 * Linux/MIPS port added
1152 * Lots of Linux updates again
1153 * Improved IPv6 support
1159 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
1163 * Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
1164 * Personalities work again
1165 * Compile correctly on SunOS again
1171 * Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
1178 * add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
1179 * support lots more Linux syscalls
1180 * fix signal handling
1181 * add IPX and IPIP support
1182 * check stray syscall after execv
1183 * fix hanging children
1185 Changes in version 3.1
1186 ======================
1188 * Irix5 is supported
1189 * Linux 68k is supported
1190 * Linux alpha is supported
1191 * configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
1192 * using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
1193 * output can be piped to a program
1194 * tracing setuid programs works better
1195 * it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
1196 * new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
1197 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
1198 take a file name as an argument
1199 * IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
1200 * Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
1201 * Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
1202 * various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
1204 Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
1205 ========================================
1207 * filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
1208 * string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
1209 * preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
1210 * by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
1211 * all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
1212 * the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
1214 New Features in version 3.0
1215 ===========================
1217 * non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
1218 * the output format is readable when multiple processes are generating output
1219 * exit values are printed in an alignment column
1220 * is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
1221 * various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
1222 * selective tracing of syscalls
1223 * selective printing of syscall structures
1224 * selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
1225 * selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
1226 * selective tracing of signals
1227 * selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
1228 * selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
1229 * optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall