| Roland McGrath | b93f918 | 2004-08-31 08:17:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | Changes in 4.5.7 |
| 2 | ============== |
| 3 | * Bug fixes. |
| 4 | * Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux. |
| 5 | * Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing. |
| 6 | * Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options. |
| 7 | * Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls. |
| 8 | |
| Roland McGrath | 785a026 | 2004-07-12 07:55:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | Changes in 4.5.6 |
| 10 | ============== |
| 11 | * Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates. |
| 12 | * David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64. |
| 13 | |
| Roland McGrath | b7e2ca1 | 2004-06-28 05:24:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | Changes in 4.5.5 |
| 15 | ============== |
| 16 | * Just bug fixes. |
| 17 | |
| Roland McGrath | ed8e77e | 2004-06-04 02:35:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | Changes in 4.5.4 |
| 19 | ============== |
| 20 | * Update Linux ioctl lists. |
| 21 | * Update PF_* and AF_* value lists. |
| 22 | * The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed. |
| 23 | |
| Roland McGrath | 6241220 | 2004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | Changes in 4.5.3 |
| 25 | ============== |
| 26 | * Bug fixes. |
| 27 | * 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] | 28 | * Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later. |
| Roland McGrath | 6241220 | 2004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | |
| Roland McGrath | b66e936 | 2004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | Changes in 4.5.2 |
| 31 | ============== |
| 32 | * Bug fixes. |
| 33 | * Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux. |
| 34 | * Better output for Linux sched_* system calls. |
| 35 | |
| Roland McGrath | 00eb84e | 2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | Changes in 4.5.1 |
| 37 | ============== |
| 38 | * Bug fixes. |
| 39 | * Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux. |
| 40 | |
| Roland McGrath | a3bc12e | 2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | Changes in 4.5 |
| Michal Ludvig | 53b320f | 2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | ============== |
| Roland McGrath | f57204d | 2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | * New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can |
| Michal Ludvig | 53b320f | 2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes. |
| 45 | * Fixed support for LFS64 calls. |
| Roland McGrath | de6e533 | 2003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | * New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command. |
| Michal Ludvig | 81a3a9a | 2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | * Merged s390/s390x port. |
| Roland McGrath | f57204d | 2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | * Trace an unbounded number of processes. |
| Roland McGrath | 5694e80 | 2003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | * 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] | 50 | * Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped. |
| Roland McGrath | 044c8d2 | 2002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | * Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children |
| 52 | in waitpid calls with WNOHANG. |
| Roland McGrath | 1b86e2d | 2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | * Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH. |
| Roland McGrath | cb61214 | 2003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | * Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64. |
| Roland McGrath | acd3cd7 | 2003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | * Many other bug fixes. |
| Michal Ludvig | 53b320f | 2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | d22c4a1 | 2001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | Changes in 4.4 |
| 58 | ============== |
| 59 | * Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us |
| 60 | * Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work. |
| 61 | Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones. |
| 62 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | e70bbe5 | 2001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | Changes in 4.3.1 |
| 64 | ================ |
| 65 | * compile fixes for Linux/mips |
| 66 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 12f75d1 | 2000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | Changes in 4.3 |
| 68 | ============== |
| Wichert Akkerman | b07296a | 2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | * Linux ia64 and hppa ports added |
| Wichert Akkerman | 7987cdf | 2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | * The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support), |
| Wichert Akkerman | a966785 | 2001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | * Linux ioctl list updated |
| Wichert Akkerman | f185065 | 2001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | * Support IPv6 scope ids |
| Wichert Akkerman | b07296a | 2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | * FreeBSD/i386 port added |
| 74 | * UnixWare and Solaris updates |
| 75 | * Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux |
| Wichert Akkerman | 12f75d1 | 2000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 4dc8a2a | 1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | Changes in 4.2 |
| 78 | ============== |
| 79 | * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again |
| 80 | * Linux/S390 port added |
| Roland McGrath | f57204d | 2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | * The usual Linux syscall updates |
| Wichert Akkerman | 9148a3b | 1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | * we can follow fork on arm now |
| Wichert Akkerman | 4dc8a2a | 1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 2a64b43 | 1999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | Changes in 4.1 |
| 85 | ================ |
| 86 | * Linux/MIPS port added |
| 87 | * Lots of Linux updates again |
| 88 | * Improved IPv6 support |
| 89 | * Add strace-graph |
| 90 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 4a01ca0 | 1999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | Changes in 4.0.1 |
| 92 | ================ |
| 93 | * Minor bugfixes |
| 94 | * Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again |
| 95 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 8dc9a1a | 1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | Changes in 4.0 |
| 97 | ============== |
| 98 | * Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs |
| 99 | * Personalities work again |
| 100 | * Compile correctly on SunOS again |
| 101 | * IRIX64 updates |
| 102 | * Solaris updates |
| 103 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 3f7f49d | 1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | Changes in 3.99.1 |
| Wichert Akkerman | 8dc9a1a | 1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | ================= |
| Wichert Akkerman | 3f7f49d | 1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | * Linux (ultra)sparc fixes |
| 107 | * Linux alpha fixes |
| 108 | * Minor cleanups |
| 109 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | b859bea | 1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | Changes in 3.99 |
| 111 | =============== |
| Wichert Akkerman | 1786d81 | 1999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 112 | * New maintainer |
| 113 | * add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm) |
| 114 | * support lots more Linux syscalls |
| 115 | * fix signal handling |
| 116 | * add IPX and IPIP support |
| 117 | * check stray syscall after execv |
| 118 | * fix hanging children |
| 119 | |
| Wichert Akkerman | 76baf7c | 1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 120 | Changes in version 3.1 |
| 121 | ====================== |
| 122 | |
| 123 | * Irix5 is supported |
| 124 | * Linux 68k is supported |
| 125 | * Linux alpha is supported |
| 126 | * configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x |
| 127 | * using -f in combination with -e now works correctly |
| 128 | * output can be piped to a program |
| 129 | * tracing setuid programs works better |
| 130 | * it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances |
| 131 | * new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole |
| 132 | classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that |
| 133 | take a file name as an argument |
| 134 | * IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded |
| 135 | * Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced |
| 136 | * Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4 |
| 137 | * various cosmetic changes and bug fixes |
| 138 | |
| 139 | Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0 |
| 140 | ======================================== |
| 141 | |
| 142 | * filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified |
| 143 | * string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default |
| 144 | * preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY) |
| 145 | * by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file |
| 146 | * all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats |
| 147 | * the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do |
| 148 | |
| 149 | New Features in version 3.0 |
| 150 | =========================== |
| 151 | |
| 152 | * non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex |
| 153 | * the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output |
| 154 | * exit values are printed in an alignment column |
| 155 | * is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching |
| 156 | * various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis |
| 157 | * selective tracing of syscalls |
| 158 | * selective printing of syscall structures |
| 159 | * selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis |
| 160 | * selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results |
| 161 | * selective tracing of signals |
| 162 | * selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors |
| 163 | * selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors |
| 164 | * optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall |