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