| Source: strace |
| Section: devel |
| Priority: standard |
| Maintainer: Roland McGrath <frob@debian.org> |
| Uploaders: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> |
| Build-Depends: libc6-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [!alpha !ia64], libc6.1-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [alpha ia64] |
| Standards-Version: 3.5.2 |
| |
| Package: strace |
| Architecture: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sh sparc |
| Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} |
| Description: A system call tracer |
| strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out |
| a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program. |
| The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can |
| use it on binaries for which you don't have source. |
| . |
| System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel |
| interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug |
| isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions. |