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