| Noteworthy changes in release 4.6 |
| ================================= |
| |
| * Changes in behavior |
| * Print diagnostic information about changes in personality mode to |
| standard error instead of standard output. |
| |
| * Improvements |
| * Implemented a new method of following clone, fork, and vfork |
| syscalls using the Linux kernel's explicit facilities for tracing |
| creation of threads and child processes. |
| * Implemented CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_UNTRACED flags handling. |
| * Implemented decoding of TLS syscalls on m68k. |
| * Implemented biarch support on powerpc64. |
| * Implemented biarch support for getrlimit() and setrlimit(). |
| * Implemented decoding of struct ucred in getsockopt SO_PEERCRED. |
| * Implemented SOL_SCTP socket options decoding. |
| * Added HDIO_* ioctl names. |
| (Addresses Debian bug #450953). |
| * Added LOOP_* ioctl names. |
| * Updated lists of CLOCK_*, CLONE_*, MS_*, and SOL_* constants |
| to match Linux 2.6.37. |
| * Updated the list of IPPROTO_* constants to match netinet/in.h. |
| * Implemented decoding of HDIO_* and BLK* ioctls. |
| * Added MicroBlaze architecture support. |
| * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 2.6.37. |
| * Regenerated list of ioctl names from Linux 2.6.37. |
| * Enhanced signal notification decoding. |
| * Documented -C and -D options. |
| |
| * Bug fixes |
| * Fixed fetching syscall arguments on m68k. |
| * Fixed an error when judging whether a process has children. |
| * Fixed get/set_robust_list syscall numbers for powerpc. |
| * Fixed a corner case in printing clone flags. |
| * Fixed cross-compiling issues. |
| * Fixed build issues on powerpc64, SH and SPARC. |
| * Fixed syscall flags of fstatat*, mmap, mmap2, fadvise64*, swapoff, |
| fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, epoll_create, fallocate, |
| fanotify_init, and fanotify_mark syscalls. |
| * Fixed decoding of get[ug]id, gete[ug]id and setfs[ug]id return values. |
| * Fixed biarch support in IO dumping. |
| * Fixed raw exit_group decoding. |
| * Fixed decoding of file descriptors on 64-bit architectures. |
| * Fixed a corner case in waitpid handling. |
| (Addresses Red Hat bug #663547). |
| * Fixed stat64 decoding on mips |
| (Addresses Debian bug #599028). |
| * Fixed misleading italics in the manual page. |
| (Addresses Debian bug #589323). |
| |
| Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.20 |
| ==================================== |
| |
| * Improvements |
| * Implemented decoding of new linux syscalls: inotify_init1, recvmmsg. |
| * Implemented basic decoding of new linux syscalls: preadv, pwritev, |
| rt_tgsigqueueinfo, perf_event_open. |
| * Enhanced decoding of recently added syscalls on non-x86 architectures |
| by replacing a bare decoder with elaborate parsers enabled earlier |
| for x86/x86-64. |
| * Implemented -C option to combine regular and -c output. |
| (Addresses Debian bug #466196) |
| * Enhanced decoding of mbind and mremap syscalls. |
| * Enhanced SOL_PACKET socket options decoding. |
| * Regenerated list of ioctl names from linux 2.6.33. |
| * Added TILE architecture support. |
| |
| * Bug fixes |
| * Fixed build with Linux kernel headers 2.6.32-rc5+. |
| (Addresses Debian bug #560516 and Fedora bug #539044) |
| * Fixed build on mips. |
| * Fixed handling of Linux systems without struct statfs64. |
| * Fixed reporting signal mask by sigreturn on powerpc. |
| * Fixed potential stack buffer overflow in select decoder. |
| (Addresses Fedora bug #556678) |
| * Corrected msgsnd indirect ipccall decoding. |
| * Corrected decoding of 64bit syscalls. |
| (Addresses Debian bug #570603) |
| * Corrected getsockopt decoding on architectures where |
| sizeof(long) > sizeof(int). |
| (Addresses Debian bug #494844) |
| * Corrected decoding of epoll_pwait. |
| (Addresses Debian bug #513014) |
| * Corrected handling of killed threads. |
| |
| Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.19 |
| ==================================== |
| |
| * Changes in behavior |
| * When command exits, strace now exits with the same exit status. |
| If command is terminated by a signal, strace terminates itself |
| with the same signal, so that strace can be used as a wrapper |
| process transparent to the invoking parent process. |
| When using -p option, the exit status of strace is zero unless |
| there was an unexpected error in doing the tracing. |
| (Addresses Fedora bug #105371 and Debian bug #37665) |
| |
| * Improvements |
| * Implemented decoding of new Linux syscalls: accept4, dup3, |
| epoll_create1, eventfd2, inotify_init1, pipe2, signalfd4. |
| * Implemented decoding of socket type flags introduced in Linux 2.6.27. |
| * Implemented decoding of accept4 socketcall. |
| * Enhanced prctl decoding. |
| * Enhanced nanosleep decoding. |
| * Enhanced ptrace decoding. |
| * Enhanced futex decoding. |
| * Enhanced CAP_* decoding. |
| * Enhanced SIOCS* ioctls decoding. |
| * Enhanced fcntl F_* flags decoding. |
| * Enhanced semop/semtimedop decoding. |
| * Updated ARM architecture support. |
| * Added Blackfin architecture support. |
| * Added AVR32 architecture support. |
| * Added CRIS architecture support. |
| * Made strace detect when traced process suddenly disappeared. |
| |
| * Bug fixes |
| * Fixed syscall numbers for tee and sync_file_range. |
| (Addresses Debian bug #503124) |
| * Fixed several bugs in strings decoder, including potential heap |
| memory corruption. |
| (Addresses Fedora bugs #470529, #478324 and #511035) |
| * Marked sendfile(2) as a network syscall. |
| (Addresses Debian bug #509499) |
| * Fixed accept(2) decoding. |
| (Addresses Debian bug #507573) |
| * Fixed sigtimedwait(2) decoding. |
| * Fixed build on ARM EABI. |
| (Addresses Debian bugs #520084 and #535564, and Fedora bug #507576) |
| * Fixed display of 32-bit fcntl(F_SETLK) on 64-bit architectures. |
| (Addresses Red Hat bug #471169) |
| * Fixed display of 32-bit argv array on 64-bit architectures. |
| (Addresses Fedora bug #519480) |
| * Fixed display of 32-bit struct sigaction on 64-bit architectures. |
| * Fixed HPPA architecture support. |
| (Addresses Debian bugs #437928 and #546619) |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.18 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Support new Linux/PPC system call subpage_prot and PROT_SAO flag. |
| * In sigaction system call, display sa_flags value along with SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.17 |
| ============== |
| * Many bug fixes. |
| * -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now. |
| * Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits. |
| * Improved output for prctl system call on Linux. |
| * Improved support for Linux/ARM. |
| * SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.16 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux. |
| * Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux. |
| * Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd, |
| eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.15 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Several biarch improvements. |
| * Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount. |
| * Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.14 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Accept numeric system calls in -e. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.13 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Introduce "-e trace=desc". |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.12 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes. |
| * Update PowerPC system calls. |
| * Better printing for Linux aio system calls. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.11 |
| ============== |
| * Quick fix release for build issues. |
| * One fix for Linux/ARM system call table. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.10 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.9 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Improve socket ioctl printing. |
| * Update Linux/IA64 syscall list. |
| * Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes. |
| * Improve mount flags printing. |
| * Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.8 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA. |
| * Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid. |
| * Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*. |
| * Improve ioctl command name matching. |
| * Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents. |
| * Support newer RLIMIT_* values. |
| * Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.7 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux. |
| * Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing. |
| * Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options. |
| * Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.6 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates. |
| * David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.5 |
| ============== |
| * Just bug fixes. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.4 |
| ============== |
| * Update Linux ioctl lists. |
| * Update PF_* and AF_* value lists. |
| * The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.3 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process. |
| * Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.2 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux. |
| * Better output for Linux sched_* system calls. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5.1 |
| ============== |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux. |
| |
| Changes in 4.5 |
| ============== |
| * New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can |
| handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes. |
| * Fixed support for LFS64 calls. |
| * New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command. |
| * Merged s390/s390x port. |
| * Trace an unbounded number of processes. |
| * Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics. |
| * Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped. |
| * Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children |
| in waitpid calls with WNOHANG. |
| * Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH. |
| * Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64. |
| * Many other bug fixes. |
| |
| Changes in 4.4 |
| ============== |
| * Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us |
| * Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work. |
| Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones. |
| |
| Changes in 4.3.1 |
| ================ |
| * compile fixes for Linux/mips |
| |
| Changes in 4.3 |
| ============== |
| * Linux ia64 and hppa ports added |
| * The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support), |
| * Linux ioctl list updated |
| * Support IPv6 scope ids |
| * FreeBSD/i386 port added |
| * UnixWare and Solaris updates |
| * Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux |
| |
| Changes in 4.2 |
| ============== |
| * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again |
| * Linux/S390 port added |
| * The usual Linux syscall updates |
| * we can follow fork on arm now |
| |
| Changes in 4.1 |
| ================ |
| * Linux/MIPS port added |
| * Lots of Linux updates again |
| * Improved IPv6 support |
| * Add strace-graph |
| |
| Changes in 4.0.1 |
| ================ |
| * Minor bugfixes |
| * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again |
| |
| Changes in 4.0 |
| ============== |
| * Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs |
| * Personalities work again |
| * Compile correctly on SunOS again |
| * IRIX64 updates |
| * Solaris updates |
| |
| Changes in 3.99.1 |
| ================= |
| * Linux (ultra)sparc fixes |
| * Linux alpha fixes |
| * Minor cleanups |
| |
| Changes in 3.99 |
| =============== |
| * New maintainer |
| * add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm) |
| * support lots more Linux syscalls |
| * fix signal handling |
| * add IPX and IPIP support |
| * check stray syscall after execv |
| * fix hanging children |
| |
| Changes in version 3.1 |
| ====================== |
| |
| * Irix5 is supported |
| * Linux 68k is supported |
| * Linux alpha is supported |
| * configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x |
| * using -f in combination with -e now works correctly |
| * output can be piped to a program |
| * tracing setuid programs works better |
| * it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances |
| * new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole |
| classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that |
| take a file name as an argument |
| * IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded |
| * Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced |
| * Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4 |
| * various cosmetic changes and bug fixes |
| |
| Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0 |
| ======================================== |
| |
| * filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified |
| * string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default |
| * preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY) |
| * by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file |
| * all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats |
| * the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do |
| |
| New Features in version 3.0 |
| =========================== |
| |
| * non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex |
| * the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output |
| * exit values are printed in an alignment column |
| * is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching |
| * various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis |
| * selective tracing of syscalls |
| * selective printing of syscall structures |
| * selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis |
| * selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results |
| * selective tracing of signals |
| * selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors |
| * selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors |
| * optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall |