Noteworthy changes in strace 4.26 (2018-12-26)
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* License
* The test suite is now provided under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
* All the rest of strace is now provided under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or later.
* Changes in behavior
* If strace is interrupted by a signal it handles (currently
one of HUP, INT, QUIT, PIPE, or TERM), strace terminates
itself with this signal.
* Improvements
* Implemented obtainment of system call information using
PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO ptrace API.
* Implemented decoding of PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO ptrace request.
* Implemented decoding of BLKGETZONESZ, BLKGETNRZONES, and RND* ioctl
commands.
* Enhanced xlat styles support configured by -X option.
* Enhanced internet address formatting in structureless contexts.
* Enhanced decoding of getsockopt SO_ERROR option.
* Enhanced error diagnostics when the first exec fails.
* Added %net as a short form of %network in syscall specifications.
* Updated lists of ABS_*, BPF_*, FAN_*, IFA_*, IFLA_*, KVM_CAP_*, NETLINK_*,
NTF_*, PR_SPEC_*, REL_*, SOL_*, TCA_*, and V4L2_* constants.
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.20.
* Enhanced manual page.
* Bug fixes
* Fixed "xlat_idx: Unexpected xlat value 0" warnings.
* Fixed sthyi output format on s390.
* Documented -X option in strace -h output.
Contributors
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This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:
* Dmitry V. Levin
* Dmitry Vyukov
* Eugene Syromyatnikov
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Jamal Hadi Salim
* Janosch Frank
* Masatake YAMATO
* Rasmus Villemoes
* Shankara Pailoor
Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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