4 Maintainer: Roland McGrath <frob@debian.org>
5 Uploaders: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
6 Build-Depends: libc6-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [!alpha !ia64], libc6.1-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [alpha ia64]
7 Standards-Version: 3.5.8
10 Architecture: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sh sparc
11 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
12 Description: A system call tracer
13 strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out
14 a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program.
15 The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can
16 use it on binaries for which you don't have source.
18 System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel
19 interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug
20 isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions.