1 Noteworthy changes in release ?.?? (????-??-??)
2 ===============================================
5 * Implemented decoding of netlink descriptor attributes as file descriptors.
6 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscalls for SOL_NETLINK
8 * Updated lists of MSG_* and SHM_* constants.
10 Noteworthy changes in release 4.20 (2017-11-13)
11 ===============================================
14 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_NETFILTER netlink message types and flags.
15 * Implemented decoding of SECCOMP_GET_ACTION_AVAIL operation of seccomp
17 * Updated lists of ARPHRD_*, BPF_*, ETH_P_*, LOOP_*, MADV_*,
18 MEMBARRIER_CMD_*, MFD_*, SECCOMP_*, SO_*, SOL_*, TCP_*, and UFFD_FEATURE_*
20 * Added decoding of statx syscall on hppa.
21 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.14.
24 * Fixed powerpc personality support on powerpc64.
26 Noteworthy changes in release 4.19 (2017-09-05)
27 ===============================================
29 * Changes in behaviour
30 * Changed formatting of personality names on tile architecture in order
31 to make it in line with other multi-personality architectures.
32 * Changed field output order in struct v4l2_requestbuffers to improve in/out
34 * Changed handling of multiple signal= specifications in an injection
35 expression: multiple specification now leads to error instead of implicit
36 usage the last specification.
39 * Enhanced decoding of optlen argument of getsockopt syscall.
40 * Enhanced decoding of SO_LINGER option of getsockopt and setsockopt syscalls.
41 * Enhanced decoding of SO_PEERCRED option of getsockopt syscall.
42 * Enhanced decoding of IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP,
43 IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, IPV6_DROP_MEMBERSHIP, IPV6_JOIN_ANYCAST,
44 IPV6_LEAVE_ANYCAST, MCAST_JOIN_GROUP, and MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP options
45 of setsockopt syscall.
46 * Enhanced decoding of KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE operation of keyctl syscall
47 (KDF parameters decoding).
48 * Implemented decoding of KEYCTL_RESTRICT_KEYRING operation of keyctl syscall.
49 * Enhanced decoding of UFFDIO_API ioctl command.
50 * Enhanced decoding of BPF_PROG_LOAD, BPF_MAP_CREATE, BPF_MAP_LOOKUP_ELEM,
51 and BPF_MAP_GET_NEXT_KEY commands of bpf syscall.
52 * Implemented decoding of linux socket filter programs specified
53 for SO_ATTACH_FILTER and SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_CBPF socket options.
54 * Implemented decoding of inet_diag_req_v2, inet_diag_req_compat,
55 packet_diag_msg, and smc_diag_msg netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
56 * Implemented NETLINK_SELINUX protocol specific decoding.
57 * Implemented decoding of netlink message ack flags.
58 * Implemented decoding of nlmsgerr netlink attributes.
59 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of NETLINK_CRYPTO.
60 * Implemented decoding of crypto_user_alg netlink attributes
62 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of addr, addrlabel, dcb, link,
63 mdb, neigh, neightbl, netconf, nsid, route, rule, tc, and tca messages
65 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT messages.
66 * Improved handling of unexpected tracees (the ones that cloned with
67 CLONE_PARENT/CLONE_PTRACE or called PTRACE_TRACEME on themselves): they
68 are now PTRACE_DETACH'ed instead of PTRACE_CONT'ed.
69 * Updated lists of BPF_*, KEY_*, RWF_*, SCM_*, SO_*, and *_MAGIC constants.
70 * Added decoding of arch_prctl syscall on x86.
71 * Added decoding of seccomp, bpf, userfaultfd, membarrier, mlock2,
72 copy_file_range, preadv2, pwritev2, and statx on alpha.
73 * Added decoding of statx syscall on microblaze.
74 * Added decoding of s390_guarded_storage syscall on s390.
75 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.13.
76 * Enhanced manual page.
79 * Fixed printing of group_req structure on non-native personalities.
80 * Fixed output formatting of blkpg_ioctl_arg, dm_name_list, and iocb
82 * Fixed formatting of nul-terminated strings which have kernel-imposed size
84 * Fixed printing of paths that hit PATM_MAX limit in order to match kernel's
86 * Fixed build warnings on Android mips64.
87 * Fixed unused function "is_negated_errno" build warning when built
89 * Fixed syscall number and arguments retrieval behaviour on sparc64 and
90 mips o32 after prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 0) makes PTRACE_PEEKTEXT impossible
91 to use if Linux kernel has commit v4.10-rc1~114^2~2.
92 * Fixed path tracing for execveat, symlink, symlinkat, inotify_add_watch,
93 and inotify_init syscalls.
94 * Fixed personality switch printing on sparc64 and risc-v.
96 Noteworthy changes in release 4.18 (2017-07-05)
97 ===============================================
100 * Implemented decoding of SCM_TIMESTAMP* control messages.
101 * Implemented decoding of netlink NLMSG_DONE messages.
102 * Implemented decoding of netlink generic nlmsg_type and nlmsg_flags.
103 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_AUDIT, NETLINK_NETFILTER, NETLINK_ROUTE,
104 NETLINK_SELINUX, NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG, and NETLINK_XFRM message types.
105 * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_GENERIC protocol families.
106 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of AF_INET, AF_INET6,
107 AF_NETLINK, AF_PACKET, AF_SMC, and AF_UNIX messages of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
108 * Implemented basic decoding of netlink attributes.
109 * Implemented basic protocol specific decoding of AF_INET, AF_NETLINK,
110 AF_PACKET, AF_SMC, and AF_UNIX netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
111 * Implemented decoding of inet_diag_msg, netlink_diag_msg, and unix_diag_msg
112 netlink attributes of NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.
113 * Updated lists of ARPHRD_*, KEYCTL_*, NDIAG_SHOW_*, RTM_*, SCM_*, SCTP_*,
114 SO_*, V4L2_*, and prctl ARCH_* constants.
115 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.12.
118 * In interactive mode (-I2), those signals that were blocked at startup
119 will remain blocked for the whole period of strace execution.
120 * strace no longer resets SIGCHLD handler in tracees to the default action.
121 * When traced command is terminated by a blocked signal, strace unblocks
122 that signal to ensure its own termination with the same signal.
123 * Fixed corner cases in decoding of old sigaction syscall.
124 * Fixed build with old kernel headers on mips.
125 * Fixed build on aarch64 and tile with glibc >= 2.26.
126 * Fixed build on arc and nios2.
128 Noteworthy changes in release 4.17 (2017-05-24)
129 ===============================================
131 * Changes in command line syntax
132 * Syscall classes specified in -e trace= option now have % prefix (like
133 -e trace=%process). Old style class names without leading % are still
134 supported, but considered deprecated now.
137 * Optimized syscall filtering.
138 * Improved representation of timestamps.
139 * Enhanced decoding of sched_setattr syscall.
140 * Added -e trace=%stat option for tracing variants of stat syscall.
141 * Added -e trace=%lstat option for tracing variants of lstat syscall.
142 * Added -e trace=%fstat option for tracing variants of fstat and fstatat
144 * Added -e trace=%%stat option for tracing syscalls used for querying file
145 status information (stat, lstat, fstat, fstatat, statx, and their
147 * Added -e trace=%statfs option for tracing statfs, statfs64 and statvfs
149 * Added -e trace=%fstatfs option for tracing fstatfs, fstatfs64 and fstatvfs
151 * Added -e trace=%%statfs option for tracing syscalls used for querying file
152 system statistics information (statfs-like, fstatfs-like and ustat).
153 * Added -e trace=/regex option for filtering syscalls using regular
155 * Added support for prepending of question mark before syscall qualification
156 in -e trace expressions in order to suppress error in case no syscalls
157 matched the provided qualification.
158 * Implemented decoding of signal mask in rt_sigreturn syscall on alpha, arc,
159 arm, avr32, bfin, cris, hppa, m68k, metag, microblaze, mips, nios2, or1k,
160 powerpc, powerpc64, riscv, sh, sh64, sparc, sparc64, tile, x86, and xtensa
162 * Implemented decoding of statx syscall.
163 * Implemented decoding of NS_* ioctl commands.
164 * Implemented decoding of the remaining V4L2_BUF_TYPE_* types.
165 * Implemented decoding of VIDIOC_[SG]_TUNER ioctl commands.
166 * Implemented decoding of NLMSG_ERROR netlink messages.
167 * Improved decoding of BPF_PROG_ATTACH command of bpf syscall.
168 * Improved decoding of misplaced parts in DM_* ioctl commands.
169 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.11.
172 * Fixed decoding of flags argument of preadv2 and pwritev2 syscalls on x32.
173 * Fixed the number of arguments and tracing flags of alpha specific syscalls.
174 * Fixed decoding of old sigsuspend syscall on alpha, cris, mips, powerpc,
175 powerpc64, sh, sh64, sparc, and sparc64.
176 * Fixed decoding of sgetmask and ssetmask syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
177 * Fixed decoding of netlink messages received within struct msghdr.
178 * Worked around a bug in miscompiled aarch64 kernels leading to the 3rd
179 argument of sched_getattr syscall being not quite 32-bit.
180 * Fixed corner cases of printing inaccessible times argument of utimes
181 and futimesat syscalls.
183 Noteworthy changes in release 4.16 (2017-02-14)
184 ===============================================
187 * Implemented syscall return value injection (-e inject=SET:retval= option).
188 * Implemented signal injection (-e inject=SET:signal= option).
189 * Implemented decoding of SUID_DUMP_* constants in PR_[GS]ET_DUMPABLE.
190 * Implemented decoding of all SG_* ioctl commands.
191 * Implemented decoding of ustat syscall.
192 * Implemented decoding of BPF_OBJ_PIN, BPF_OBJ_GET, BPF_PROG_ATTACH,
193 and BPF_PROG_DETACH commands of bpf syscall.
194 * Enhanced decoding of sg_io_hdr and sg_io_v4 structures.
195 * Enhanced decoding of get_robust_list, getrandom, io_submit, set_robust_list
197 * Enhanced decoding of entities of kernel long type on x32 and mips n32 ABIs.
198 * Updated lists of IP_*, IPV6_*, and LOOP_* constants.
199 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.10.
200 * Added decoding of recently added syscalls on avr32, microblaze, ppc,
204 * Fixed pathmatch of oldselect syscall on 64-bit architectures.
205 * Fixed decoding of mmap2 syscall on s390 when arguments are not available.
206 * Fixed decoding of kexec_file_load, mprotect, pkey_mprotect, prctl, preadv*,
207 and pwritev* syscalls on x32.
208 * Fixed printing of string arguments of getxattr and setxattr syscalls
209 when -s option is used to limit the printed string size.
210 * Fixed decoding of ifconf, ifreq, and loop_info structures on non-native
212 * Fixed decoding of SG_* and LOOP_* ioctl commands.
213 * Fixed build on mips with musl libc.
214 * Fixed cross-building of ioctlsort.
215 * Applied minor formatting fixes to the manual page.
217 Noteworthy changes in release 4.15 (2016-12-14)
218 ===============================================
220 * Changes in behavior
221 * Time stamps are now printed according to ISO 8601.
222 * Changed output format of val3 parameter of futex FUTEX_WAKE_OP operation.
223 * The last argument of mincore, sched_getaffinity, and sched_setaffinity
224 syscalls is now formatted as an array.
227 * Implemented syscall fault injection (-e fault=... option).
228 * Implemented decoding of DM_* ioctl commands.
229 * Implemented decoding of attr parameter of perf_event_open syscall.
230 * Implemented decoding of pkey_alloc, pkey_free, and pkey_mprotect syscalls.
231 * Implemented dumping of mq_timedsend and mq_timedreceive syscalls.
232 * Implemented decoding of PR_SET_FP_MODE and PR_GET_FP_MODE operations
234 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on m68k.
235 * Updated lists of ARCH_*, BPF_*, BTRFS_*, FALLOC_*, MS_*, *_MAGIC,
236 and V4L2_* constants.
237 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.9.
238 * Added decoding of recently added syscalls on arc, x32, and xtensa.
239 * Enhanced manual page.
242 * Fixed corner cases in decoding of exit, exit_group, futimesat, getgroups,
243 getresuid, init_module, inotify_init1, kcmp, kexec_load, lookup_dcookie,
244 mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_open, mq_timedreceive, mq_timedsend,
245 name_to_handle_at, prctl, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, setfsuid,
246 setgroups, setns, unshare, and utimes syscalls.
247 * Fixed handling of verbose flag in printing of controls array
248 of struct v4l2_ext_controls.
249 * Fixed omission of field names in the output of capability, sigaction,
250 sigevent, statfs, timespec, timeval, and utimbuf structures.
251 * Fixed printing of unknown syscalls in siginfo structure.
252 * Fixed decoding of ioctl constants on m68k.
253 * Fixed cris architecture support.
254 * Fixed cross build when host compiler does not support the same
255 set of warning flags as the cross compiler.
256 * Fixed build on SLE10 and SLE11.
258 Noteworthy changes in release 4.14 (2016-10-04)
259 ===============================================
261 * Changes in behavior
262 * When using -p option without a command and no processes has been attached,
263 strace exits with exit status 1.
266 * Added printing of the mode argument of open and openat syscalls
267 when O_TMPFILE flag is set. (Addresses Fedora bug #1377846).
268 * Enhanced -e abbrev=set, -e raw=set, and -e verbose=set.
269 * Enhanced decoding of futex, keyctl, quotactl, timerfd_settime,
270 and aio family syscalls.
271 * Implemented fetching of the 7th subcall argument on mips o32.
272 * Updated lists of BPF_*, ETH_P_*, KEXEC_ARCH_*, SCTP_*, TCP_*, and *_MAGIC
274 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.8.
275 * Added decoding of new syscalls on sh and sh64.
276 * Added RISC-V architecture support.
279 * Marked io_setup and io_destroy as memory mapping related syscalls.
280 * Fixed leakage of placeholder descriptors to tracees.
281 * Fixed printing of mode_t, umode_t, and umask types.
282 * Fixed decoding of iovec arrays without a limit on total data size.
283 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, futex, keyctl, quotactl, readahead,
284 and ipc family syscalls.
285 * Fixed decoding of invalid syscalls mapped to indirect subcalls.
286 * Fixed decoding of struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args_v2 on non-native
288 * Fixed decoding of PTRACE_DETACH on sparc and sparc64.
289 * Fixed decoding of struct stat64 on sparc64.
290 * Fixed decoding of uid and gid-related syscalls on sparc64.
291 * Fixed decoding of the forth argument of semctl syscall on sparc64.
292 * Fixed values of tty ioctl constants on sparc64.
293 * Fixed sparc personality support on sparc64.
295 Noteworthy changes in release 4.13 (2016-07-26)
296 ===============================================
299 * Implemented a general netlink socket parser.
300 * Enhanced decoding of socket addresses.
301 * Enhanced decoding of cmsghdr, msghdr, and mmsghdr structures.
302 * Enhanced decoding of accept, accept4, bind, getpeername, getsockname,
303 ipc, recvfrom, recvmsg, recvmmsg, sendto, sendmmsg, and socketcall syscalls.
304 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, KEY_*, KEYCTL_*, RWF_*, SS_*,
305 and *_MAGIC constants.
306 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.7.
309 * Fixed decoding of pid_t argument of prlimit64 syscall.
310 * Fixed sign extension issues in the parser of struct rusage.
311 * Fixed race condition in decoding of timeout argument of recvmmsg and
312 rt_sigtimedwait syscalls.
313 * Fixed build with fresh linux kernel headers.
315 Noteworthy changes in release 4.12 (2016-05-31)
316 ===============================================
319 * Implemented simultaneous use of -p option and tracing of a command.
320 (addresses Debian bug #549942).
321 * Implemented caching of netlink conversations to reduce amount of time
322 spent in decoding socket details in -yy mode.
323 * Implemented -yy mode decoding of protocol:portid pairs associated with
324 netlink socket descriptors.
325 * Implemented decoding of copy_file_range, preadv2, and pwritev2 syscalls.
326 * Implemented dumping of preadv, preadv2, pwritev, pwritev2, and vmsplice
328 * Implemented decoding of BTRFS_* and UFFDIO_* ioctl commands.
329 * Enhanced decoding of BLK*, EVIOC*, RTC_*, and VIDIOC_* ioctl commands.
330 * Enhanced decoding of fstatfs, fstatfs64, get_mempolicy, getdents,
331 getdents64, getgroups, getpriority, kill, mbind, migrate_pages, mknod,
332 mknodat, personality, poll, ppoll, quotactl, rt_sigpending,
333 rt_sigqueueinfo, rt_sigtimedwait, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sched_getaffinity,
334 sched_setaffinity, seccomp, set_mempolicy, setgroups, setpriority, statfs,
335 statfs64, tgkill, waitid, and xattr family syscalls.
336 * Enhanced decoding of getxpid, getxuid, and getxgid syscalls on alpha.
337 * Enhanced decoding of pipe syscall on alpha, ia64, mips, sh, and sparc.
338 * Added decoding of bind, listen, and setsockopt direct syscalls on sparc.
339 * Added decoding of osf_statfs64 and osf_fstatfs64 syscalls on alpha.
340 * Added decoding of fadvise64 and fadvise64_64 on s390.
341 * Updated lists of AF_*, BPF_MAP_TYPE_*, CLONE_*, EPOLL*, IPV6_*, MADV_*,
342 MSG_*, PTRACE_*, SEGV_*, SO_*, SOL_*, *_MAGIC, and quotactl constants.
343 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.6.
346 * Fixed build on arc, metag, nios2, or1k, and tile architectures.
347 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit times syscall return value on 64-bit architectures.
348 * Fixed decoding of mlock2 syscall on sparc.
349 * Fixed decoding of osf_shmat syscall on alpha.
350 * Fixed decoding of syscalls unknown to the kernel on s390/s390x.
351 (addresses Debian bug #485979 and Fedora bug #1298294).
352 * Fixed decoding of preadv syscall in case of short read.
353 * Fixed decoding and dumping of readv syscall in case of short read.
354 * Fixed dumping of recvmsg and recvmmsg syscalls in case of short read.
355 * Fixed decoding of mincore syscall's last argument.
356 * Fixed remaining errors in mapping between syscall numbers and numbers
357 of syscall arguments.
358 * Applied various fixes to strace-graph script.
360 Noteworthy changes in release 4.11 (2015-12-21)
361 ===============================================
363 * Changes in behavior
364 * Some syscalls have different names depending on architecture and
365 personality. In these cases, syscall filtering and printing now
366 consistently uses the names that match corresponding __NR_* kernel
367 macros of the tracee's architecture and personality.
368 * Added strace prefix to all diagnostic messages.
371 * Enhanced and extended test suite.
372 * Implemented reliable tracing of processes whose personality differs
373 from the personality of strace, fixed decoding of 32-bit personality
374 syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
375 * When some data referenced by syscall arguments is irrelevant or cannot
376 be read from tracee's memory, strace now prints its address consistently.
377 * When a syscall is restarted using restart_syscall mechanism, strace now
378 shows the syscall name on architectures that expose this information.
379 * Print values returned by epoll_create1, eventfd, eventfd2, fanotify_init,
380 inotify_init1, perf_event_open, pipe, pipe2, signalfd, signalfd4, socket,
381 socketpair, timerfd, and timerfd_create syscalls, as well as F_DUPFD and
382 F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC fcntl commands, as file descriptors.
383 * Optimized decoding of indirect socket syscalls.
384 * Implemented decoding of nanoseconds along with seconds in stat family
385 syscalls (addresses Fedora bug #1251176).
386 * Implemented decoding of struct statfs.f_flags in statfs syscall.
387 * Implemented decoding of siginfo_t.si_syscall and siginfo_t.si_arch
389 * Implemented decoding of indirect syscall on mips o32.
390 * Implemented decoding of IPPROTO_IP control messages.
391 * Implemented decoding of setsockopt syscall multicast arguments.
392 * Enhanced decoding of struct sigevent.
393 * Enhanced decoding of block, loop, mtd, ptp, rtc, SG_IO, socket, tty,
394 and v4l2 ioctl syscall arguments.
395 * Enhanced decoding of epoll_create, fcntl, fcntl64, futex, getdents,
396 getdents64, getsockopt, io_*, mount, msgctl, prctl, quotactl, recvfrom,
397 sendfile, setsockopt, and shmctl syscalls.
398 * Implemented decoding of bpf, execveat, ioperm, iopl, kcmp, kexec_file_load,
399 lookup_dcookie, membarrier, memfd_create, mlock2, name_to_handle_at,
400 open_by_handle_at, sched_getattr, sched_setattr, and userfaultfd syscalls.
401 * Updated lists of AF_*, EPOLL_*, FALLOC_FL_*, F_*, INPUT_PROP_*, IPPROTO_*,
402 IPV6_*, IP_*, KEY_*, LOCK_*, MNT_*, MS_*, PACKET_*, PERF_FLAG_*, PF_*,
403 PR_*, PTRACE_O_*, RENAME_*, SCTP_*, SECBIT_*, SO_*, TCP_*, and siginfo_t
405 * Added Nios II architecture support.
406 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 4.4.
409 * Fixed potential short read of strings from tracee's memory.
410 * Fixed -qq option in conjunction with -o option.
411 * Fixed filtering of <unavailable> syscalls.
412 * Fixed decoding of ioctl syscall command on aarch64 and 32-bit architectures
413 with 64-bit aligned structures.
414 * Fixed decoding of eventfd2, epoll_create1, signalfd4, and sync_file_range2
415 syscall flags arguments.
416 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of clock_nanosleep syscall.
417 * Fixed decoding of getpagesize syscall on m68k.
418 * Fixed decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls on aarch64.
419 * Fixed decoding of timezone argument of gettimeofday and settimeofday
421 * Fixed decoding of offset argument of mmap2 syscall on arm, sparc,
423 * Fixed decoding of pipe syscall on alpha and mips.
424 * Fixed decoding of pipe2 syscall on ia64, sh, sparc, and sparc64.
425 * Fixed decoding of signal mask argument of pselect6 syscall on x32.
426 * Fixed decoding of signal mask of rt_sigreturn syscall on aarch64, m68k,
428 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of semctl indirect syscall.
429 * Fixed decoding of sa_restorer and sa_mask of sigaction syscall on m68k.
430 * Fixed decoding of statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls on arm eabi.
431 * Fixed decoding of struct dirent on x32.
432 * Fixed decoding of times syscall return value on mips n32 and x32.
433 * Fixed decoding of path argument of umount2 syscall
434 (addresses Debian bug #785050).
435 * Worked around a kernel bug in tracing privileged executables.
436 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
437 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
440 Noteworthy changes in release 4.10 (2015-03-06)
441 ===============================================
444 * Added -yy option to print protocol and address information associated with
446 * Extended "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" options to cover sendmsg,
447 recvmsg, sendmmsg, and recvmmsg syscalls.
448 * Implemented full 32-bit decoding of ioctl commands
449 (addresses Debian bug #692913 and Fedora bug #902788).
450 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on ia64.
451 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on mips.
452 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGSET API support on s390/s390x.
453 * Implemented decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls.
454 * Implemented full decoding of 64-bit capability sets.
455 * Implemented decoding of all prctl commands.
456 * Implemented decoding of parametrized ioctl commands.
457 * Implemented decoding of evdev ioctl commands.
458 * Implemented decoding of v4l ioctl commands.
459 * Implemented decoding of SG_IO v4 ioctl commands.
460 * Implemented decoding of FIFREEZE/FITHAW/FITRIM ioctl commands.
461 * Implemented decoding of FALLOC_FL_* fallocate flags.
462 * Implemented decoding of rt_sigreturn signal mask on aarch64,
464 * Enhanced socket decoder to support bluetooth sockets.
465 * Enhanced decoding of unlisted ioctl commands.
466 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscall.
467 * Enhanced decoding of sysinfo syscall.
468 * Enhanced decoding of struct cmsghdr.
469 * Enhanced decoding of wait status.
470 * Enhanced aio support on non-x86 architectures by using external libaio.h.
471 * Added O_TMPFILE to the list of recognized open mode flags.
472 * Updated the list of filesystem type constants that is used in decoding
473 statfs family syscalls.
474 * Updated lists of CAP_*, PR_*, PTRACE_*, SCHED_*, SO_*, SOL_*, SWAP_FLAG_*,
476 * Updated lists of signal constants from Linux 3.19.
477 * Updated lists of errno constants from Linux 3.19.
478 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 3.9.
479 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.19.
482 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
483 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
485 * Fixed quoting issues in printing descriptors, filenames, network interface
486 names, struct utsname members, device/volume names of BLK* ioctl commands.
487 * Fixed uid_t/git_t decoding.
488 * Fixed potential out-of-bounds read issues in getdents/getdents64 decoders.
489 * Fixed potential open flags truncation on some architectures.
490 * Fixed decoding of struct ifreq.ifr_name.
491 * Fixed decoding of SIOCSIFNAME ioctl command.
492 * Fixed decoding of RENAME_* renameat2 flags.
493 * Fixed decoding of UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT timeval structures.
494 * Fixed decoding of indirect ipc subcalls on some architectures.
495 * Fixed decoding of fanotify_mark syscall on 32-bit architectures.
496 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit stat structures on 64-bit architectures.
497 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit struct cmsghdr on 64-bit architectures.
498 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit preadv/pwritev offset on 64-bit architectures.
499 * Fixed decoding of sigreturn/rt_sigreturn signal mask on ia64, ppc, ppc64,
500 sparc, sparc64, mips, and s390.
501 * Fixed instruction pointer output (-i option) on architectures that support
502 several personalities.
503 * Fixed behaviour of "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" when read and write
505 * Fixed build on systems where struct sigaction has no sa_restorer member.
506 * Fixed build with uclibc and musl libc.
509 * Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required.
510 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_SETOPTIONS support will not work.
511 * On mips, linux kernel >= 2.6.15 is required.
512 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work.
513 * On s390 and s390x, linux kernel >= 2.6.27 is required.
514 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGSET support will not work.
516 Noteworthy changes in release 4.9 (2014-08-15)
517 ==============================================
519 * Changes in behavior
520 * Disabled OABI support on ARM EABI systems by default,
521 added --enable-arm-oabi option to enable it at configure time.
524 * Added experimental -k option to print stack trace after each traced syscall.
525 * Added -w option to produce stats on syscall latency.
526 (addresses Debian bug #457497).
527 * Added ARC architecture support.
528 * Added PTRACE_GETREGS API support on PowerPC.
529 * Enhanced Bionic libc and musl libc support.
530 * Enhanced tracing of x86 personality processes on x86_64 and x32.
531 * Enhanced tracing of ARM personality processes on AArch64.
532 * Enhanced 32/64bit personality detection on PowerPC.
533 * Implemented decoding of add_key, ioprio_get, ioprio_set, kexec_load, keyctl,
534 renameat2, and request_key syscalls.
535 * Robustified decoding of select, pselect, and io_submit syscalls.
536 * Enhanced decoding of delete_module, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, fcntl,
537 setdomainname, sethostname, setns, and sync_file_range syscalls.
538 * Enhanced decoding of signal bitmasks.
539 * Enhanced decoding of file descriptors.
540 * Enhanced siginfo_t decoding.
541 * Enhanced PF_NETLINK decoding.
542 * Updated CLOCK_* constants
543 (addresses Fedora bug #1088455).
544 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.16.
547 * Added shmat and shmdt to the set of memory mapping related syscalls.
548 * Fixed detaching from stopped processes.
549 * Fixed fanotify_mark decoding on 32bit architectures.
550 * Fixed offset decoding in preadv and pwritev syscalls.
551 * Fixed select decoding for glibc in _FORTIFY_SOURCE mode.
552 * Fixed decoding of epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_DEL argument.
553 * Fixed build when <sys/ptrace.h> and <linux/ptrace.h> conflict
554 (addresses Fedora bug #993384).
555 * Miscellaneous corrections in the manual page.
556 (Addresses Debian bug #725987).
558 Noteworthy changes in release 4.8 (2013-06-03)
559 ==============================================
561 * Changes in behavior
562 * In case of normal strace termination, when the trace output is
563 redirected to a pipe, strace now closes it and waits for the pipe
564 process termination before exit.
567 * Implemented tracing using PTRACE_SEIZE API (when available).
568 * Implemented more reliable PTRACE_GETREGSET-based process personality
569 detection on x86-64 and x32 (when available).
570 * Added -e trace=memory option for tracing memory mapping related syscalls.
571 * Documented -b option.
572 * Allowed exit status messages to be suppressed by giving -q option twice.
573 * Added AArch64 architecture support
574 (addresses Debian bug #693074 and Fedora bug #969858).
575 * Added support for OpenRISC 1000, Meta, and Xtensa architectures.
576 * Added tilegx personality support for Tile.
577 * Enhanced support of NOMMU architectures.
578 * Enhanced decoding of getdents, mmap, perf_event_open, ptrace, and
580 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.9.
581 * Regenerated the list of common ioctl names from Linux 3.9.
582 * Updated the list of errno constants.
583 * Updated lists of AF_*, MADV_*, MAP_*, MSG_*, MS_*, PF_*, PR_*,
584 PTRACE_O_*, and TCP_* constants.
585 * Implemented decoding of UBI ioctls.
586 * Removed redundant "*32" ioctl names.
589 * Fixed ERESTARTNOINTR leaking to userspace on ancient kernels
590 (addresses Fedora bug #659382).
591 * Fixed kernel release string parsing
592 (addresses Debian bug #702309).
593 * Fixed decoding of *xattr syscalls
594 (addresses Fedora bug #885233).
595 * Fixed handling of files with 64-bit inode numbers by 32-bit strace
596 (addresses Fedora bug #912790).
597 * Fixed tracing forks on SPARC.
598 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, ftruncate64, io_submit, pread,
599 preadv, pwrite, pwritev, readahead, sigaltstack, sync_file_range, sysctl,
600 and truncate64 syscalls.
601 * Fixed categories of multiple syscalls on most of supported architectures.
602 * Fixed decoding of non-native 32-bit personality recv[m]msg syscalls.
603 * Fixed decoding of multiple 32-bit personality syscalls on x32.
604 * Fixed decoding of long long syscall arguments on ARM, MIPS/o32, PowerPC,
605 S390x, and Tile architectures.
606 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on S390x.
607 * Fixed sram_alloc decoding on Blackfin.
608 * Fixed build when process_vm_readv is a stab.
609 * Fixed build with older versions of libaio.h.
611 Noteworthy changes in release 4.7 (2012-05-02)
612 ==============================================
614 * Changes in behavior
615 * strace no longer suspends waitpid until there is a child
616 for waitpid'ing process to collect status from.
617 * strace no longer detaches from a tracee which is supposed
619 * strace now issues a new message: "+++ exited with EXITCODE +++"
620 which shows exact moment strace got exit notification,
621 analogous to existing "+++ killed by SIG +++" message.
624 * Added x32 personality support (x86_64 architecture).
625 * Added -y and -P options to print file descriptor paths and
626 filter by those paths.
627 * Added -I option to control strace interactivity.
628 * Allowed -p option to take comma or whitespace-separated list of PIDs.
629 * Added strace_log_merge script helper to merge timestamped "strace -ff"
631 * Implemented decoding of clock_adjtime, get_robust_list, migrate_pages,
632 preadv, prlimit64, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, pwritev,
633 recvmmsg, recvmsg, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sendmmsg, setns, set_robust_list,
634 sched_rr_get_interval, splice, syslog, tee and vmsplice syscalls.
635 * Enhanced decoding of capget, capset, getrlimit, flistxattr, io_submit,
636 listxattr, setrlimit and swapon syscalls.
637 * Implemented decoding of loop and mtd ioctls.
638 * Added syscall entries for new linux syscalls.
639 * Added syscall entries for direct socket system calls on powerpc.
640 * Updated the list of errno constants.
641 * Updated lists of MSG_*, STA_*, and TCP_* constants.
642 * Regenerated the list of ioctl names from Linux 3.3.
643 * Enhanced switching between processes with different personalities.
644 * Enhanced signals reporting by using short signal names.
645 * Made ERESTART* messages more descriptive.
646 * Made parsing of numbers from strings more robust.
647 * Added support for compat_statfs64 and statfs64.f_flags.
648 * Changed read of data blocks to use single process_vm_readv syscall
649 (when available) instead of several PTRACE_PEEKDATA operations.
650 * Changed read of registers on x86 and x86-64 to use single PTRACE_GETREGS
651 operation instead of several PTRACE_PEEKUSER operations.
652 * Applied various optimizations to make strace work faster.
655 * Implemented proper handling of real SIGTRAPs on kernels supporting
656 PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD.
657 (Addresses Fedora bug #162774).
658 * Fixed sockaddr_un.sun_path name in decoded output.
659 (Addresses Debian bug #554946).
660 * Fixed to avoid potential core file clobbering on exit.
661 (Addresses Debian bug #656398).
662 * Fixed a typo in documentation.
663 (Addresses Debian bug #653309).
664 * Fixed decoding of timer id returned by timer_create.
665 * Fixed epoll_create1, epoll_wait and epoll_pwait decoding.
666 * Fixed *at syscalls flags decoding.
667 * Fixed ARM EABI 64-bit syscall's arguments decoding.
668 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on s390.
669 * Fixed osf_sigprocmask decoding on alpha.
670 * Fixed ipc and socket subcall decoding on several architectures.
671 * Corrected syscall entries for epoll_pwait, epoll_create, epoll_ctl,
672 epoll_wait, mincore, mlockall, prctl, reboot, sendfile, sendfile64,
673 sendmsg, sgetmask, ssetmask, swapon, tgkill and tkill syscalls.
674 * Corrected io_* syscall entries on ARM.
675 * Fixed PID prefix printing in "strace -oLOG -ff -p1 -p2 -p3" case.
676 * Fixed logging of unfinished lines in "strace -oLOG -ff" case.
677 * Fixed build when libaio-devel is not available.
678 * Fixed configure checks for PTRACE_* constants.
679 * Fixed compilation warnings remained on several architectures.
682 * Removed all non-Linux code. After years of neglect, that dead code
683 just hampered further strace development.
684 * Linux kernel >= 2.6.18 is recommended. Older versions might still
685 work but they haven't been thoroughly tested with this release.
687 Noteworthy changes in release 4.6 (2011-03-15)
688 ==============================================
690 * Changes in behavior
691 * Print diagnostic information about changes in personality mode to
692 standard error instead of standard output.
695 * Implemented a new method of following clone, fork, and vfork
696 syscalls using the Linux kernel's explicit facilities for tracing
697 creation of threads and child processes.
698 * Implemented CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_UNTRACED flags handling.
699 * Implemented decoding of TLS syscalls on m68k.
700 * Implemented biarch support on powerpc64.
701 * Implemented biarch support for getrlimit() and setrlimit().
702 * Implemented decoding of struct ucred in getsockopt SO_PEERCRED.
703 * Implemented SOL_SCTP socket options decoding.
704 * Added HDIO_* ioctl names.
705 (Addresses Debian bug #450953).
706 * Added LOOP_* ioctl names.
707 * Updated lists of CLOCK_*, CLONE_*, MS_*, and SOL_* constants
708 to match Linux 2.6.37.
709 * Updated the list of IPPROTO_* constants to match netinet/in.h.
710 * Implemented decoding of HDIO_* and BLK* ioctls.
711 * Added MicroBlaze architecture support.
712 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 2.6.37.
713 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from Linux 2.6.37.
714 * Enhanced signal notification decoding.
715 * Documented -C and -D options.
718 * Fixed fetching syscall arguments on m68k.
719 * Fixed an error when judging whether a process has children.
720 * Fixed get/set_robust_list syscall numbers for powerpc.
721 * Fixed a corner case in printing clone flags.
722 * Fixed cross-compiling issues.
723 * Fixed build issues on powerpc64, SH and SPARC.
724 * Fixed syscall flags of fstatat*, mmap, mmap2, fadvise64*, swapoff,
725 fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, epoll_create, fallocate,
726 fanotify_init, and fanotify_mark syscalls.
727 * Fixed decoding of get[ug]id, gete[ug]id and setfs[ug]id return values.
728 * Fixed biarch support in IO dumping.
729 * Fixed raw exit_group decoding.
730 * Fixed decoding of file descriptors on 64-bit architectures.
731 * Fixed a corner case in waitpid handling.
732 (Addresses Red Hat bug #663547).
733 * Fixed stat64 decoding on mips
734 (Addresses Debian bug #599028).
735 * Fixed misleading italics in the manual page.
736 (Addresses Debian bug #589323).
738 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.20 (2010-04-13)
739 =================================================
742 * Implemented decoding of new linux syscalls: inotify_init1, recvmmsg.
743 * Implemented basic decoding of new linux syscalls: preadv, pwritev,
744 rt_tgsigqueueinfo, perf_event_open.
745 * Enhanced decoding of recently added syscalls on non-x86 architectures
746 by replacing a bare decoder with elaborate parsers enabled earlier
748 * Implemented -C option to combine regular and -c output.
749 (Addresses Debian bug #466196)
750 * Enhanced decoding of mbind and mremap syscalls.
751 * Enhanced SOL_PACKET socket options decoding.
752 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from linux 2.6.33.
753 * Added TILE architecture support.
756 * Fixed build with Linux kernel headers 2.6.32-rc5+.
757 (Addresses Debian bug #560516 and Fedora bug #539044)
758 * Fixed build on mips.
759 * Fixed handling of Linux systems without struct statfs64.
760 * Fixed reporting signal mask by sigreturn on powerpc.
761 * Fixed potential stack buffer overflow in select decoder.
762 (Addresses Fedora bug #556678)
763 * Corrected msgsnd indirect ipccall decoding.
764 * Corrected decoding of 64bit syscalls.
765 (Addresses Debian bug #570603)
766 * Corrected getsockopt decoding on architectures where
767 sizeof(long) > sizeof(int).
768 (Addresses Debian bug #494844)
769 * Corrected decoding of epoll_pwait.
770 (Addresses Debian bug #513014)
771 * Corrected handling of killed threads.
773 Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.19 (2009-10-21)
774 =================================================
776 * Changes in behavior
777 * When command exits, strace now exits with the same exit status.
778 If command is terminated by a signal, strace terminates itself
779 with the same signal, so that strace can be used as a wrapper
780 process transparent to the invoking parent process.
781 When using -p option, the exit status of strace is zero unless
782 there was an unexpected error in doing the tracing.
783 (Addresses Fedora bug #105371 and Debian bug #37665)
786 * Implemented decoding of new Linux syscalls: accept4, dup3,
787 epoll_create1, eventfd2, inotify_init1, pipe2, signalfd4.
788 * Implemented decoding of socket type flags introduced in Linux 2.6.27.
789 * Implemented decoding of accept4 socketcall.
790 * Enhanced prctl decoding.
791 * Enhanced nanosleep decoding.
792 * Enhanced ptrace decoding.
793 * Enhanced futex decoding.
794 * Enhanced CAP_* decoding.
795 * Enhanced SIOCS* ioctls decoding.
796 * Enhanced fcntl F_* flags decoding.
797 * Enhanced semop/semtimedop decoding.
798 * Updated ARM architecture support.
799 * Added Blackfin architecture support.
800 * Added AVR32 architecture support.
801 * Added CRIS architecture support.
802 * Made strace detect when traced process suddenly disappeared.
805 * Fixed syscall numbers for tee and sync_file_range.
806 (Addresses Debian bug #503124)
807 * Fixed several bugs in strings decoder, including potential heap
809 (Addresses Fedora bugs #470529, #478324 and #511035)
810 * Marked sendfile(2) as a network syscall.
811 (Addresses Debian bug #509499)
812 * Fixed accept(2) decoding.
813 (Addresses Debian bug #507573)
814 * Fixed sigtimedwait(2) decoding.
815 * Fixed build on ARM EABI.
816 (Addresses Debian bugs #520084 and #535564, and Fedora bug #507576)
817 * Fixed display of 32-bit fcntl(F_SETLK) on 64-bit architectures.
818 (Addresses Red Hat bug #471169)
819 * Fixed display of 32-bit argv array on 64-bit architectures.
820 (Addresses Fedora bug #519480)
821 * Fixed display of 32-bit struct sigaction on 64-bit architectures.
822 * Fixed HPPA architecture support.
823 (Addresses Debian bugs #437928 and #546619)
828 * Support new Linux/PPC system call subpage_prot and PROT_SAO flag.
829 * In sigaction system call, display sa_flags value along with SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
834 * -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now.
835 * Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits.
836 * Improved output for prctl system call on Linux.
837 * Improved support for Linux/ARM.
838 * SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND.
843 * Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux.
844 * Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux.
845 * Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd,
846 eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait.
851 * Several biarch improvements.
852 * Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
853 * Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
858 * Accept numeric system calls in -e.
863 * Introduce "-e trace=desc".
868 * Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
869 * Update PowerPC system calls.
870 * Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
874 * Quick fix release for build issues.
875 * One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
880 * Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
885 * Improve socket ioctl printing.
886 * Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
887 * Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
888 * Improve mount flags printing.
889 * Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
894 * Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
895 * Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
896 * Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
897 * Improve ioctl command name matching.
898 * Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
899 * Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
900 * Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
905 * Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
906 * Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
907 * Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
908 * Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
912 * Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
913 * David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
921 * Update Linux ioctl lists.
922 * Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
923 * The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
928 * On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
929 * Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
934 * Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
935 * Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
940 * Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
944 * New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
945 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
946 * Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
947 * New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
948 * Merged s390/s390x port.
949 * Trace an unbounded number of processes.
950 * Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
951 * Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
952 * Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
953 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
954 * Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
955 * Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
956 * Many other bug fixes.
960 * Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
961 * Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
962 Improve the ioctl extractor as well so we decode some more ones.
966 * compile fixes for Linux/mips
970 * Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
971 * The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
972 * Linux ioctl list updated
973 * Support IPv6 scope ids
974 * FreeBSD/i386 port added
975 * UnixWare and Solaris updates
976 * Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
980 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
981 * Linux/S390 port added
982 * The usual Linux syscall updates
983 * we can follow fork on arm now
987 * Linux/MIPS port added
988 * Lots of Linux updates again
989 * Improved IPv6 support
995 * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
999 * Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
1000 * Personalities work again
1001 * Compile correctly on SunOS again
1007 * Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
1014 * add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
1015 * support lots more Linux syscalls
1016 * fix signal handling
1017 * add IPX and IPIP support
1018 * check stray syscall after execv
1019 * fix hanging children
1021 Changes in version 3.1
1022 ======================
1024 * Irix5 is supported
1025 * Linux 68k is supported
1026 * Linux alpha is supported
1027 * configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
1028 * using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
1029 * output can be piped to a program
1030 * tracing setuid programs works better
1031 * it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
1032 * new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
1033 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
1034 take a file name as an argument
1035 * IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
1036 * Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
1037 * Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
1038 * various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
1040 Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
1041 ========================================
1043 * filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
1044 * string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
1045 * preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
1046 * by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
1047 * all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
1048 * the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
1050 New Features in version 3.0
1051 ===========================
1053 * non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
1054 * the output format is readable when multiple processes are generating output
1055 * exit values are printed in an alignment column
1056 * is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
1057 * various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
1058 * selective tracing of syscalls
1059 * selective printing of syscall structures
1060 * selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
1061 * selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
1062 * selective tracing of signals
1063 * selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
1064 * selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
1065 * optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall