| Roland McGrath | 47d3223 | 2007-08-03 10:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | Changes in 4.5.16 |
| 2 | ============== |
| 3 | * Bug fixes. |
| 4 | * Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux. |
| 5 | * Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux. |
| 6 | * Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd, |
| 7 | eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait. |
| 8 | |
| Roland McGrath | 16a3a52 | 2007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | Changes in 4.5.15 |
| 10 | ============== |
| 11 | * Bug fixes. |
| 12 | * Several biarch improvements. |
| Roland McGrath | 0a45fae | 2007-01-16 23:25:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | * Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount. |
| Roland McGrath | 16a3a52 | 2007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | * Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare. |
| 15 | |
| Roland McGrath | f4d9b49 | 2006-01-17 06:22:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | Changes in 4.5.14 |
| 17 | ============== |
| 18 | * Bug fixes. |
| 19 | * Accept numeric system calls in -e. |
| 20 | |
| Roland McGrath | cab4380 | 2005-08-03 11:42:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | Changes in 4.5.13 |
| 22 | ============== |
| 23 | * Bug fixes. |
| 24 | * Introduce "-e trace=desc". |
| 25 | |
| Roland McGrath | 182cbf4 | 2005-06-10 03:56:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | Changes in 4.5.12 |
| 27 | ============== |
| 28 | * Bug fixes. |
| 29 | * Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes. |
| 30 | * Update PowerPC system calls. |
| 31 | * Better printing for Linux aio system calls. |
| 32 | |
| Roland McGrath | 7147a3d | 2005-03-22 23:12:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | Changes in 4.5.11 |
| 34 | ============== |
| 35 | * Quick fix release for build issues. |
| 36 | * One fix for Linux/ARM system call table. |
| 37 | |
| Roland McGrath | d818403 | 2005-03-15 02:40:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | Changes in 4.5.10 |
| 39 | ============== |
| 40 | * Bug fixes. |
| 41 | * Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available. |
| 42 | |
| Roland McGrath | d63311a | 2005-02-04 09:29:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | Changes in 4.5.9 |
| 44 | ============== |
| 45 | * Bug fixes. |
| 46 | * Improve socket ioctl printing. |
| 47 | * Update Linux/IA64 syscall list. |
| 48 | * Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes. |
| 49 | * Improve mount flags printing. |
| 50 | * Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters. |
| 51 | |
| Roland McGrath | f041d47 | 2004-10-20 02:17:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | Changes in 4.5.8 |
| 53 | ============== |
| 54 | * Bug fixes. |
| 55 | * Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA. |
| 56 | * Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid. |
| 57 | * Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*. |
| 58 | * Improve ioctl command name matching. |
| 59 | * Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents. |
| 60 | * Support newer RLIMIT_* values. |
| 61 | * Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg. |
| 62 | |
| Roland McGrath | b93f918 | 2004-08-31 08:17:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | Changes in 4.5.7 |
| 64 | ============== |
| 65 | * Bug fixes. |
| 66 | * Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux. |
| 67 | * Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing. |
| 68 | * Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options. |
| 69 | * Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls. |
| 70 | |
| Roland McGrath | 785a026 | 2004-07-12 07:55:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | Changes in 4.5.6 |
| 72 | ============== |
| 73 | * Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates. |
| 74 | * David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64. |
| 75 | |
| Roland McGrath | b7e2ca1 | 2004-06-28 05:24:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | Changes in 4.5.5 |
| 77 | ============== |
| 78 | * Just bug fixes. |
| 79 | |
| Roland McGrath | ed8e77e | 2004-06-04 02:35:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | Changes in 4.5.4 |
| 81 | ============== |
| 82 | * Update Linux ioctl lists. |
| 83 | * Update PF_* and AF_* value lists. |
| 84 | * The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed. |
| 85 | |
| Roland McGrath | 6241220 | 2004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | Changes in 4.5.3 |
| 87 | ============== |
| 88 | * Bug fixes. |
| 89 | * On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process. |
| Roland McGrath | 5e169a1 | 2004-04-16 21:54:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | * Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later. |
| Roland McGrath | 6241220 | 2004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | |
| Roland McGrath | b66e936 | 2004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | Changes in 4.5.2 |
| 93 | ============== |
| 94 | * Bug fixes. |
| 95 | * Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux. |
| 96 | * Better output for Linux sched_* system calls. |
| 97 | |
| Roland McGrath | 00eb84e | 2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | Changes in 4.5.1 |
| 99 | ============== |
| 100 | * Bug fixes. |
| 101 | * Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux. |
| 102 | |
| Roland McGrath | a3bc12e | 2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | Changes in 4.5 |
| Michal Ludvig | 53b320f | 2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | ============== |
| Roland McGrath | f57204d | 2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | * New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can |
| Michal Ludvig | 53b320f | 2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes. |
| 107 | * Fixed support for LFS64 calls. |
| Roland McGrath | de6e533 | 2003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | * New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command. |
| Michal Ludvig | 81a3a9a | 2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | * Merged s390/s390x port. |
| Roland McGrath | f57204d | 2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | * Trace an unbounded number of processes. |
| Roland McGrath | 5694e80 | 2003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | * Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics. |
| Roland McGrath | f57204d | 2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 112 | * Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped. |
| Roland McGrath | 044c8d2 | 2002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 113 | * Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children |
| 114 | in waitpid calls with WNOHANG. |
| Roland McGrath | 1b86e2d | 2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | * Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH. |
| Roland McGrath | cb61214 | 2003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | * Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64. |
| Roland McGrath | acd3cd7 | 2003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | * Many other bug fixes. |
| Michal Ludvig | 53b320f | 2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | d22c4a1 | 2001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | Changes in 4.4 |
| 120 | ============== |
| 121 | * Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us |
| 122 | * Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work. |
| 123 | Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones. |
| 124 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | e70bbe5 | 2001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 125 | Changes in 4.3.1 |
| 126 | ================ |
| 127 | * compile fixes for Linux/mips |
| 128 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 12f75d1 | 2000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 129 | Changes in 4.3 |
| 130 | ============== |
| Wichert Akkerman | b07296a | 2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | * Linux ia64 and hppa ports added |
| Wichert Akkerman | 7987cdf | 2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | * The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support), |
| Wichert Akkerman | a966785 | 2001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | * Linux ioctl list updated |
| Wichert Akkerman | f185065 | 2001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 134 | * Support IPv6 scope ids |
| Wichert Akkerman | b07296a | 2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 135 | * FreeBSD/i386 port added |
| 136 | * UnixWare and Solaris updates |
| 137 | * Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux |
| Wichert Akkerman | 12f75d1 | 2000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 4dc8a2a | 1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | Changes in 4.2 |
| 140 | ============== |
| 141 | * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again |
| 142 | * Linux/S390 port added |
| Roland McGrath | f57204d | 2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 143 | * The usual Linux syscall updates |
| Wichert Akkerman | 9148a3b | 1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | * we can follow fork on arm now |
| Wichert Akkerman | 4dc8a2a | 1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 2a64b43 | 1999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | Changes in 4.1 |
| 147 | ================ |
| 148 | * Linux/MIPS port added |
| 149 | * Lots of Linux updates again |
| 150 | * Improved IPv6 support |
| 151 | * Add strace-graph |
| 152 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 4a01ca0 | 1999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | Changes in 4.0.1 |
| 154 | ================ |
| 155 | * Minor bugfixes |
| 156 | * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again |
| 157 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 8dc9a1a | 1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 158 | Changes in 4.0 |
| 159 | ============== |
| 160 | * Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs |
| 161 | * Personalities work again |
| 162 | * Compile correctly on SunOS again |
| 163 | * IRIX64 updates |
| 164 | * Solaris updates |
| 165 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 3f7f49d | 1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | Changes in 3.99.1 |
| Wichert Akkerman | 8dc9a1a | 1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 167 | ================= |
| Wichert Akkerman | 3f7f49d | 1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | * Linux (ultra)sparc fixes |
| 169 | * Linux alpha fixes |
| 170 | * Minor cleanups |
| 171 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | b859bea | 1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | Changes in 3.99 |
| 173 | =============== |
| Wichert Akkerman | 1786d81 | 1999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | * New maintainer |
| 175 | * add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm) |
| 176 | * support lots more Linux syscalls |
| 177 | * fix signal handling |
| 178 | * add IPX and IPIP support |
| 179 | * check stray syscall after execv |
| 180 | * fix hanging children |
| 181 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 76baf7c | 1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 182 | Changes in version 3.1 |
| 183 | ====================== |
| 184 | |
| 185 | * Irix5 is supported |
| 186 | * Linux 68k is supported |
| 187 | * Linux alpha is supported |
| 188 | * configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x |
| 189 | * using -f in combination with -e now works correctly |
| 190 | * output can be piped to a program |
| 191 | * tracing setuid programs works better |
| 192 | * it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances |
| 193 | * new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole |
| 194 | classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that |
| 195 | take a file name as an argument |
| 196 | * IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded |
| 197 | * Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced |
| 198 | * Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4 |
| 199 | * various cosmetic changes and bug fixes |
| 200 | |
| 201 | Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0 |
| 202 | ======================================== |
| 203 | |
| 204 | * filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified |
| 205 | * string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default |
| 206 | * preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY) |
| 207 | * by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file |
| 208 | * all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats |
| 209 | * the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do |
| 210 | |
| 211 | New Features in version 3.0 |
| 212 | =========================== |
| 213 | |
| 214 | * non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex |
| 215 | * the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output |
| 216 | * exit values are printed in an alignment column |
| 217 | * is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching |
| 218 | * various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis |
| 219 | * selective tracing of syscalls |
| 220 | * selective printing of syscall structures |
| 221 | * selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis |
| 222 | * selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results |
| 223 | * selective tracing of signals |
| 224 | * selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors |
| 225 | * selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors |
| 226 | * optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall |