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Roland McGrath785a0262004-07-12 07:55:48 +0000[diff] [blame^]1Changes in 4.5.6
2==============
3* Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
4* David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
5
Roland McGrathb7e2ca12004-06-28 05:24:29 +0000[diff] [blame]6Changes in 4.5.5
7==============
8* Just bug fixes.
9
Roland McGrathed8e77e2004-06-04 02:35:58 +0000[diff] [blame]10Changes in 4.5.4
11==============
12* Update Linux ioctl lists.
13* Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
14* The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
15
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]16Changes in 4.5.3
17==============
18* Bug fixes.
19* On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
Roland McGrath5e169a12004-04-16 21:54:56 +0000[diff] [blame]20* Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]21
Roland McGrathb66e9362004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000[diff] [blame]22Changes in 4.5.2
23==============
24* Bug fixes.
25* Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
26* Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
27
Roland McGrath00eb84e2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]28Changes in 4.5.1
29==============
30* Bug fixes.
31* Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
32
Roland McGratha3bc12e2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000[diff] [blame]33Changes in 4.5
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]34==============
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]35* New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]36 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
37* Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
Roland McGrathde6e5332003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]38* New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
Michal Ludvig81a3a9a2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]39* Merged s390/s390x port.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]40* Trace an unbounded number of processes.
Roland McGrath5694e802003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000[diff] [blame]41* Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]42* Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
Roland McGrath044c8d22002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000[diff] [blame]43* Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
44 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
Roland McGrath1b86e2d2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]45* Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
Roland McGrathcb612142003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000[diff] [blame]46* Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
Roland McGrathacd3cd72003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000[diff] [blame]47* Many other bug fixes.
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]48
Wichert Akkermand22c4a12001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000[diff] [blame]49Changes in 4.4
50==============
51* Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
52* Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
53 Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
54
Wichert Akkermane70bbe52001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000[diff] [blame]55Changes in 4.3.1
56================
57* compile fixes for Linux/mips
58
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]59Changes in 4.3
60==============
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]61* Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
Wichert Akkerman7987cdf2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000[diff] [blame]62* The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
Wichert Akkermana9667852001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000[diff] [blame]63* Linux ioctl list updated
Wichert Akkermanf1850652001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000[diff] [blame]64* Support IPv6 scope ids
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]65* FreeBSD/i386 port added
66* UnixWare and Solaris updates
67* Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]68
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]69Changes in 4.2
70==============
71* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
72* Linux/S390 port added
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]73* The usual Linux syscall updates
Wichert Akkerman9148a3b1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000[diff] [blame]74* we can follow fork on arm now
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]75
Wichert Akkerman2a64b431999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000[diff] [blame]76Changes in 4.1
77================
78* Linux/MIPS port added
79* Lots of Linux updates again
80* Improved IPv6 support
81* Add strace-graph
82
Wichert Akkerman4a01ca01999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000[diff] [blame]83Changes in 4.0.1
84================
85* Minor bugfixes
86* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
87
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]88Changes in 4.0
89==============
90* Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
91* Personalities work again
92* Compile correctly on SunOS again
93* IRIX64 updates
94* Solaris updates
95
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]96Changes in 3.99.1
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]97=================
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]98* Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
99* Linux alpha fixes
100* Minor cleanups
101
Wichert Akkermanb859bea1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000[diff] [blame]102Changes in 3.99
103===============
Wichert Akkerman1786d811999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000[diff] [blame]104* New maintainer
105* add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
106* support lots more Linux syscalls
107* fix signal handling
108* add IPX and IPIP support
109* check stray syscall after execv
110* fix hanging children
111
Wichert Akkerman76baf7c1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]112Changes in version 3.1
113======================
114
115* Irix5 is supported
116* Linux 68k is supported
117* Linux alpha is supported
118* configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
119* using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
120* output can be piped to a program
121* tracing setuid programs works better
122* it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
123* new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
124 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
125 take a file name as an argument
126* IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
127* Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
128* Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
129* various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
130
131Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
132========================================
133
134* filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
135* string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
136* preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
137* by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
138* all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
139* the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
140
141New Features in version 3.0
142===========================
143
144* non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
145* the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
146* exit values are printed in an alignment column
147* is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
148* various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
149* selective tracing of syscalls
150* selective printing of syscall structures
151* selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
152* selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
153* selective tracing of signals
154* selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
155* selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
156* optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall