1 This is strace, a system call tracer for Linux.
3 strace is released under a Berkeley-style license at the request
6 See the file CREDITS for a list of authors and other contributors.
7 See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
8 See the file NEWS for information on what has changed in recent versions.
10 The project's homepage is at
13 strace has a mailing list:
14 strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
17 * Linux kernel >= 2.6.18 is recommended. Older versions might still work
18 but they haven't been thoroughly tested with this release.
19 * Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required.
20 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_SETOPTIONS support will not work.
21 * On mips, linux kernel >= 2.6.15 is required.
22 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work.
23 * On s390 and s390x, linux kernel >= 2.6.27 is required.
24 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGSET support will not work.