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Dmitry V. Levin97cbf692015-12-24 16:53:07 +00004* Improvements
Dmitry V. Levin6bf08e32016-01-07 00:31:33 +00005 * Enhanced decoding of personality, sched_getaffinity,
6 and sched_setaffinity syscalls.
Dmitry V. Levin2720a612016-01-09 00:06:06 +00007 * Enhanced decoding of getxpid, getxuid, and getxgid syscalls on alpha.
Dmitry V. Levin97cbf692015-12-24 16:53:07 +00008
Dmitry V. Levindd1a80c2015-12-24 15:40:55 +00009* Bug fixes
10 * Fixed build on arc, metag, nios2, or1k, and tile architectures.
Dmitry V. Levinbe1cb922016-01-07 14:20:17 +000011 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit times syscall return value on 64-bit architectures.
Dmitry V. Levindd1a80c2015-12-24 15:40:55 +000012
Dmitry V. Levin2acb0652015-12-21 20:21:22 +000013Noteworthy changes in release 4.11 (2015-12-21)
Dmitry V. Levin91bdbb42015-03-09 22:05:40 +000014===============================================
15
Dmitry V. Levin7405b122015-12-19 20:57:30 +000016* Changes in behavior
17 * Some syscalls have different names depending on architecture and
18 personality. In these cases, syscall filtering and printing now
19 consistently uses the names that match corresponding __NR_* kernel
20 macros of the tracee's architecture and personality.
21 * Added strace prefix to all diagnostic messages.
22
23* Improvements
24 * Enhanced and extended test suite.
25 * Implemented reliable tracing of processes whose personality differs
26 from the personality of strace, fixed decoding of 32-bit personality
27 syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
28 * When some data referenced by syscall arguments is irrelevant or cannot
29 be read from tracee's memory, strace now prints its address consistently.
30 * When a syscall is restarted using restart_syscall mechanism, strace now
31 shows the syscall name on architectures that expose this information.
32 * Print values returned by epoll_create1, eventfd, eventfd2, fanotify_init,
33 inotify_init1, perf_event_open, pipe, pipe2, signalfd, signalfd4, socket,
34 socketpair, timerfd, and timerfd_create syscalls, as well as F_DUPFD and
35 F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC fcntl commands, as file descriptors.
36 * Optimized decoding of indirect socket syscalls.
37 * Implemented decoding of nanoseconds along with seconds in stat family
38 syscalls (addresses Fedora bug #1251176).
39 * Implemented decoding of struct statfs.f_flags in statfs syscall.
40 * Implemented decoding of siginfo_t.si_syscall and siginfo_t.si_arch
41 in SIGSYS signal.
42 * Implemented decoding of indirect syscall on mips o32.
43 * Implemented decoding of IPPROTO_IP control messages.
44 * Implemented decoding of setsockopt syscall multicast arguments.
45 * Enhanced decoding of struct sigevent.
46 * Enhanced decoding of block, loop, mtd, ptp, rtc, SG_IO, socket, tty,
47 and v4l2 ioctl syscall arguments.
48 * Enhanced decoding of epoll_create, fcntl, fcntl64, futex, getdents,
49 getdents64, getsockopt, io_*, mount, msgctl, prctl, quotactl, recvfrom,
50 sendfile, setsockopt, and shmctl syscalls.
51 * Implemented decoding of bpf, execveat, ioperm, iopl, kcmp, kexec_file_load,
52 lookup_dcookie, membarrier, memfd_create, mlock2, name_to_handle_at,
53 open_by_handle_at, sched_getattr, sched_setattr, and userfaultfd syscalls.
54 * Updated lists of AF_*, EPOLL_*, FALLOC_FL_*, F_*, INPUT_PROP_*, IPPROTO_*,
55 IPV6_*, IP_*, KEY_*, LOCK_*, MNT_*, MS_*, PACKET_*, PERF_FLAG_*, PF_*,
56 PR_*, PTRACE_O_*, RENAME_*, SCTP_*, SECBIT_*, SO_*, TCP_*, and siginfo_t
57 constants.
58 * Added Nios II architecture support.
59 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 4.4.
60
61* Bug fixes
62 * Fixed potential short read of strings from tracee's memory.
63 * Fixed -qq option in conjunction with -o option.
64 * Fixed filtering of <unavailable> syscalls.
65 * Fixed decoding of ioctl syscall command on aarch64 and 32-bit architectures
66 with 64-bit aligned structures.
67 * Fixed decoding of eventfd2, epoll_create1, signalfd4, and sync_file_range2
68 syscall flags arguments.
69 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of clock_nanosleep syscall.
70 * Fixed decoding of getpagesize syscall on m68k.
71 * Fixed decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls on aarch64.
72 * Fixed decoding of timezone argument of gettimeofday and settimeofday
73 * syscalls.
74 * Fixed decoding of offset argument of mmap2 syscall on arm, sparc,
75 and sparc64.
76 * Fixed decoding of pipe syscall on alpha and mips.
77 * Fixed decoding of pipe2 syscall on ia64, sh, sparc, and sparc64.
78 * Fixed decoding of signal mask argument of pselect6 syscall on x32.
79 * Fixed decoding of signal mask of rt_sigreturn syscall on aarch64, m68k,
80 and x32.
81 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of semctl indirect syscall.
82 * Fixed decoding of sa_restorer and sa_mask of sigaction syscall on m68k.
83 * Fixed decoding of statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls on arm eabi.
84 * Fixed decoding of struct dirent on x32.
85 * Fixed decoding of times syscall return value on mips n32 and x32.
86 * Fixed decoding of path argument of umount2 syscall
87 (addresses Debian bug #785050).
88 * Worked around a kernel bug in tracing privileged executables.
89 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
90 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
91 and syscall decoder.
92
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +000093Noteworthy changes in release 4.10 (2015-03-06)
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Dmitry V. Levine277a902014-08-19 11:34:44 +000095
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +000096* Improvements
97 * Added -yy option to print protocol and address information associated with
98 socket descriptors.
99 * Extended "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" options to cover sendmsg,
100 recvmsg, sendmmsg, and recvmmsg syscalls.
101 * Implemented full 32-bit decoding of ioctl commands
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000102 (addresses Debian bug #692913 and Fedora bug #902788).
103 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on ia64.
104 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on mips.
105 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGSET API support on s390/s390x.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000106 * Implemented decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls.
107 * Implemented full decoding of 64-bit capability sets.
108 * Implemented decoding of all prctl commands.
109 * Implemented decoding of parametrized ioctl commands.
110 * Implemented decoding of evdev ioctl commands.
111 * Implemented decoding of v4l ioctl commands.
112 * Implemented decoding of SG_IO v4 ioctl commands.
113 * Implemented decoding of FIFREEZE/FITHAW/FITRIM ioctl commands.
114 * Implemented decoding of FALLOC_FL_* fallocate flags.
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000115 * Implemented decoding of rt_sigreturn signal mask on aarch64,
116 x32, and x86_64.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000117 * Enhanced socket decoder to support bluetooth sockets.
118 * Enhanced decoding of unlisted ioctl commands.
119 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscall.
120 * Enhanced decoding of sysinfo syscall.
121 * Enhanced decoding of struct cmsghdr.
122 * Enhanced decoding of wait status.
123 * Enhanced aio support on non-x86 architectures by using external libaio.h.
124 * Added O_TMPFILE to the list of recognized open mode flags.
125 * Updated the list of filesystem type constants that is used in decoding
126 statfs family syscalls.
127 * Updated lists of CAP_*, PR_*, PTRACE_*, SCHED_*, SO_*, SOL_*, SWAP_FLAG_*,
128 and TFD_* constants.
129 * Updated lists of signal constants from Linux 3.19.
130 * Updated lists of errno constants from Linux 3.19.
131 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 3.9.
132 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.19.
133
134* Bug fixes
135 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
136 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
137 and syscall decoder.
138 * Fixed quoting issues in printing descriptors, filenames, network interface
139 names, struct utsname members, device/volume names of BLK* ioctl commands.
140 * Fixed uid_t/git_t decoding.
141 * Fixed potential out-of-bounds read issues in getdents/getdents64 decoders.
142 * Fixed potential open flags truncation on some architectures.
143 * Fixed decoding of struct ifreq.ifr_name.
144 * Fixed decoding of SIOCSIFNAME ioctl command.
145 * Fixed decoding of RENAME_* renameat2 flags.
146 * Fixed decoding of UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT timeval structures.
147 * Fixed decoding of indirect ipc subcalls on some architectures.
148 * Fixed decoding of fanotify_mark syscall on 32-bit architectures.
149 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit stat structures on 64-bit architectures.
150 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit struct cmsghdr on 64-bit architectures.
151 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit preadv/pwritev offset on 64-bit architectures.
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000152 * Fixed decoding of sigreturn/rt_sigreturn signal mask on ia64, ppc, ppc64,
153 sparc, sparc64, mips, and s390.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000154 * Fixed instruction pointer output (-i option) on architectures that support
155 several personalities.
156 * Fixed behaviour of "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" when read and write
157 sets intersect.
158 * Fixed build on systems where struct sigaction has no sa_restorer member.
159 * Fixed build with uclibc and musl libc.
160
161* Portability
162 * Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required.
163 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_SETOPTIONS support will not work.
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000164 * On mips, linux kernel >= 2.6.15 is required.
165 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work.
166 * On s390 and s390x, linux kernel >= 2.6.27 is required.
167 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGSET support will not work.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000168
Dmitry V. Levine4db4c42014-08-15 13:14:15 +0000169Noteworthy changes in release 4.9 (2014-08-15)
Dmitry V. Levin02d2c702013-06-05 21:33:45 +0000170==============================================
171
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000172* Changes in behavior
173 * Disabled OABI support on ARM EABI systems by default,
174 added --enable-arm-oabi option to enable it at configure time.
175
Mark Hillse53bf232014-05-28 17:52:40 +0100176* Improvements
Dmitry V. Levin2734a702014-06-18 15:34:27 +0000177 * Added experimental -k option to print stack trace after each traced syscall.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000178 * Added -w option to produce stats on syscall latency.
179 (addresses Debian bug #457497).
180 * Added ARC architecture support.
181 * Added PTRACE_GETREGS API support on PowerPC.
182 * Enhanced Bionic libc and musl libc support.
183 * Enhanced tracing of x86 personality processes on x86_64 and x32.
184 * Enhanced tracing of ARM personality processes on AArch64.
185 * Enhanced 32/64bit personality detection on PowerPC.
Dmitry V. Levin6d32e462014-08-15 00:36:36 +0000186 * Implemented decoding of add_key, ioprio_get, ioprio_set, kexec_load, keyctl,
187 renameat2, and request_key syscalls.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000188 * Robustified decoding of select, pselect, and io_submit syscalls.
Dmitry V. Levin6d32e462014-08-15 00:36:36 +0000189 * Enhanced decoding of delete_module, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, fcntl,
190 setdomainname, sethostname, setns, and sync_file_range syscalls.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000191 * Enhanced decoding of signal bitmasks.
192 * Enhanced decoding of file descriptors.
193 * Enhanced siginfo_t decoding.
194 * Enhanced PF_NETLINK decoding.
195 * Updated CLOCK_* constants
196 (addresses Fedora bug #1088455).
Dmitry V. Levin6d32e462014-08-15 00:36:36 +0000197 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.16.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000198
199* Bug fixes
200 * Added shmat and shmdt to the set of memory mapping related syscalls.
201 * Fixed detaching from stopped processes.
202 * Fixed fanotify_mark decoding on 32bit architectures.
203 * Fixed offset decoding in preadv and pwritev syscalls.
204 * Fixed select decoding for glibc in _FORTIFY_SOURCE mode.
205 * Fixed decoding of epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_DEL argument.
206 * Fixed build when <sys/ptrace.h> and <linux/ptrace.h> conflict
207 (addresses Fedora bug #993384).
208 * Miscellaneous corrections in the manual page.
209 (Addresses Debian bug #725987).
Mark Hillse53bf232014-05-28 17:52:40 +0100210
Dmitry V. Levind8454112013-06-03 12:34:56 +0000211Noteworthy changes in release 4.8 (2013-06-03)
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000212==============================================
Dmitry V. Levin503faaa2012-05-02 23:00:34 +0000213
Dmitry V. Levind8454112013-06-03 12:34:56 +0000214* Changes in behavior
215 * In case of normal strace termination, when the trace output is
216 redirected to a pipe, strace now closes it and waits for the pipe
217 process termination before exit.
218
219* Improvements
220 * Implemented tracing using PTRACE_SEIZE API (when available).
221 * Implemented more reliable PTRACE_GETREGSET-based process personality
222 detection on x86-64 and x32 (when available).
223 * Added -e trace=memory option for tracing memory mapping related syscalls.
224 * Documented -b option.
225 * Allowed exit status messages to be suppressed by giving -q option twice.
226 * Added AArch64 architecture support
227 (addresses Debian bug #693074 and Fedora bug #969858).
228 * Added support for OpenRISC 1000, Meta, and Xtensa architectures.
229 * Added tilegx personality support for Tile.
230 * Enhanced support of NOMMU architectures.
231 * Enhanced decoding of getdents, mmap, perf_event_open, ptrace, and
232 quotactl syscalls.
233 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.9.
Dmitry V. Levin1cd3f5f2013-06-03 16:24:53 +0000234 * Regenerated the list of common ioctl names from Linux 3.9.
Dmitry V. Levind8454112013-06-03 12:34:56 +0000235 * Updated the list of errno constants.
236 * Updated lists of AF_*, MADV_*, MAP_*, MSG_*, MS_*, PF_*, PR_*,
237 PTRACE_O_*, and TCP_* constants.
238 * Implemented decoding of UBI ioctls.
239 * Removed redundant "*32" ioctl names.
240
241* Bug fixes
242 * Fixed ERESTARTNOINTR leaking to userspace on ancient kernels
243 (addresses Fedora bug #659382).
244 * Fixed kernel release string parsing
245 (addresses Debian bug #702309).
246 * Fixed decoding of *xattr syscalls
247 (addresses Fedora bug #885233).
248 * Fixed handling of files with 64-bit inode numbers by 32-bit strace
249 (addresses Fedora bug #912790).
250 * Fixed tracing forks on SPARC.
251 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, ftruncate64, io_submit, pread,
252 preadv, pwrite, pwritev, readahead, sigaltstack, sync_file_range, sysctl,
253 and truncate64 syscalls.
254 * Fixed categories of multiple syscalls on most of supported architectures.
255 * Fixed decoding of non-native 32-bit personality recv[m]msg syscalls.
256 * Fixed decoding of multiple 32-bit personality syscalls on x32.
257 * Fixed decoding of long long syscall arguments on ARM, MIPS/o32, PowerPC,
258 S390x, and Tile architectures.
259 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on S390x.
260 * Fixed sram_alloc decoding on Blackfin.
261 * Fixed build when process_vm_readv is a stab.
262 * Fixed build with older versions of libaio.h.
263
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000264Noteworthy changes in release 4.7 (2012-05-02)
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Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000266
267* Changes in behavior
268 * strace no longer suspends waitpid until there is a child
269 for waitpid'ing process to collect status from.
270 * strace no longer detaches from a tracee which is supposed
271 to be going to die.
272 * strace now issues a new message: "+++ exited with EXITCODE +++"
273 which shows exact moment strace got exit notification,
274 analogous to existing "+++ killed by SIG +++" message.
275
276* Improvements
Mike Frysinger9b4fca22012-04-27 19:13:55 -0400277 * Added x32 personality support (x86_64 architecture).
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000278 * Added -y and -P options to print file descriptor paths and
279 filter by those paths.
280 * Added -I option to control strace interactivity.
281 * Allowed -p option to take comma or whitespace-separated list of PIDs.
282 * Added strace_log_merge script helper to merge timestamped "strace -ff"
283 log files.
284 * Implemented decoding of clock_adjtime, get_robust_list, migrate_pages,
285 preadv, prlimit64, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, pwritev,
Dmitry V. Levin4ef30632012-05-01 21:04:18 +0000286 recvmmsg, recvmsg, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sendmmsg, setns, set_robust_list,
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000287 sched_rr_get_interval, splice, syslog, tee and vmsplice syscalls.
288 * Enhanced decoding of capget, capset, getrlimit, flistxattr, io_submit,
289 listxattr, setrlimit and swapon syscalls.
290 * Implemented decoding of loop and mtd ioctls.
291 * Added syscall entries for new linux syscalls.
292 * Added syscall entries for direct socket system calls on powerpc.
293 * Updated the list of errno constants.
Dmitry V. Levina28fbfd2012-05-01 21:17:51 +0000294 * Updated lists of MSG_*, STA_*, and TCP_* constants.
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000295 * Regenerated the list of ioctl names from Linux 3.3.
296 * Enhanced switching between processes with different personalities.
297 * Enhanced signals reporting by using short signal names.
298 * Made ERESTART* messages more descriptive.
299 * Made parsing of numbers from strings more robust.
300 * Added support for compat_statfs64 and statfs64.f_flags.
301 * Changed read of data blocks to use single process_vm_readv syscall
302 (when available) instead of several PTRACE_PEEKDATA operations.
303 * Changed read of registers on x86 and x86-64 to use single PTRACE_GETREGS
304 operation instead of several PTRACE_PEEKUSER operations.
305 * Applied various optimizations to make strace work faster.
306
307* Bug fixes
308 * Implemented proper handling of real SIGTRAPs on kernels supporting
309 PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD.
310 (Addresses Fedora bug #162774).
311 * Fixed sockaddr_un.sun_path name in decoded output.
312 (Addresses Debian bug #554946).
313 * Fixed to avoid potential core file clobbering on exit.
314 (Addresses Debian bug #656398).
315 * Fixed a typo in documentation.
316 (Addresses Debian bug #653309).
317 * Fixed decoding of timer id returned by timer_create.
318 * Fixed epoll_create1, epoll_wait and epoll_pwait decoding.
319 * Fixed *at syscalls flags decoding.
320 * Fixed ARM EABI 64-bit syscall's arguments decoding.
321 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on s390.
322 * Fixed osf_sigprocmask decoding on alpha.
323 * Fixed ipc and socket subcall decoding on several architectures.
324 * Corrected syscall entries for epoll_pwait, epoll_create, epoll_ctl,
325 epoll_wait, mincore, mlockall, prctl, reboot, sendfile, sendfile64,
326 sendmsg, sgetmask, ssetmask, swapon, tgkill and tkill syscalls.
Mike Frysinger9b4fca22012-04-27 19:13:55 -0400327 * Corrected io_* syscall entries on ARM.
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000328 * Fixed PID prefix printing in "strace -oLOG -ff -p1 -p2 -p3" case.
329 * Fixed logging of unfinished lines in "strace -oLOG -ff" case.
330 * Fixed build when libaio-devel is not available.
331 * Fixed configure checks for PTRACE_* constants.
332 * Fixed compilation warnings remained on several architectures.
333
334* Portability
335 * Removed all non-Linux code. After years of neglect, that dead code
336 just hampered further strace development.
Dmitry V. Levin4ef30632012-05-01 21:04:18 +0000337 * Linux kernel >= 2.6.18 is recommended. Older versions might still
338 work but they haven't been thoroughly tested with this release.
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000339
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000340Noteworthy changes in release 4.6 (2011-03-15)
341==============================================
Dmitry V. Levin50e69cb2011-02-21 22:58:59 +0000342
343* Changes in behavior
344 * Print diagnostic information about changes in personality mode to
345 standard error instead of standard output.
346
347* Improvements
348 * Implemented a new method of following clone, fork, and vfork
349 syscalls using the Linux kernel's explicit facilities for tracing
350 creation of threads and child processes.
351 * Implemented CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_UNTRACED flags handling.
352 * Implemented decoding of TLS syscalls on m68k.
353 * Implemented biarch support on powerpc64.
354 * Implemented biarch support for getrlimit() and setrlimit().
355 * Implemented decoding of struct ucred in getsockopt SO_PEERCRED.
356 * Implemented SOL_SCTP socket options decoding.
357 * Added HDIO_* ioctl names.
358 (Addresses Debian bug #450953).
359 * Added LOOP_* ioctl names.
360 * Updated lists of CLOCK_*, CLONE_*, MS_*, and SOL_* constants
361 to match Linux 2.6.37.
362 * Updated the list of IPPROTO_* constants to match netinet/in.h.
363 * Implemented decoding of HDIO_* and BLK* ioctls.
364 * Added MicroBlaze architecture support.
365 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 2.6.37.
366 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from Linux 2.6.37.
367 * Enhanced signal notification decoding.
368 * Documented -C and -D options.
369
370* Bug fixes
371 * Fixed fetching syscall arguments on m68k.
372 * Fixed an error when judging whether a process has children.
373 * Fixed get/set_robust_list syscall numbers for powerpc.
374 * Fixed a corner case in printing clone flags.
375 * Fixed cross-compiling issues.
376 * Fixed build issues on powerpc64, SH and SPARC.
377 * Fixed syscall flags of fstatat*, mmap, mmap2, fadvise64*, swapoff,
378 fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, epoll_create, fallocate,
379 fanotify_init, and fanotify_mark syscalls.
380 * Fixed decoding of get[ug]id, gete[ug]id and setfs[ug]id return values.
381 * Fixed biarch support in IO dumping.
382 * Fixed raw exit_group decoding.
383 * Fixed decoding of file descriptors on 64-bit architectures.
384 * Fixed a corner case in waitpid handling.
385 (Addresses Red Hat bug #663547).
386 * Fixed stat64 decoding on mips
387 (Addresses Debian bug #599028).
388 * Fixed misleading italics in the manual page.
389 (Addresses Debian bug #589323).
390
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000391Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.20 (2010-04-13)
392=================================================
Dmitry V. Levinacbe5182010-04-06 23:46:43 +0000393
394* Improvements
395 * Implemented decoding of new linux syscalls: inotify_init1, recvmmsg.
396 * Implemented basic decoding of new linux syscalls: preadv, pwritev,
397 rt_tgsigqueueinfo, perf_event_open.
398 * Enhanced decoding of recently added syscalls on non-x86 architectures
399 by replacing a bare decoder with elaborate parsers enabled earlier
400 for x86/x86-64.
401 * Implemented -C option to combine regular and -c output.
402 (Addresses Debian bug #466196)
403 * Enhanced decoding of mbind and mremap syscalls.
404 * Enhanced SOL_PACKET socket options decoding.
405 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from linux 2.6.33.
406 * Added TILE architecture support.
407
408* Bug fixes
409 * Fixed build with Linux kernel headers 2.6.32-rc5+.
410 (Addresses Debian bug #560516 and Fedora bug #539044)
411 * Fixed build on mips.
412 * Fixed handling of Linux systems without struct statfs64.
413 * Fixed reporting signal mask by sigreturn on powerpc.
414 * Fixed potential stack buffer overflow in select decoder.
415 (Addresses Fedora bug #556678)
416 * Corrected msgsnd indirect ipccall decoding.
417 * Corrected decoding of 64bit syscalls.
418 (Addresses Debian bug #570603)
419 * Corrected getsockopt decoding on architectures where
420 sizeof(long) > sizeof(int).
421 (Addresses Debian bug #494844)
422 * Corrected decoding of epoll_pwait.
423 (Addresses Debian bug #513014)
424 * Corrected handling of killed threads.
425
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000426Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.19 (2009-10-21)
427=================================================
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000428
429* Changes in behavior
430 * When command exits, strace now exits with the same exit status.
431 If command is terminated by a signal, strace terminates itself
432 with the same signal, so that strace can be used as a wrapper
433 process transparent to the invoking parent process.
434 When using -p option, the exit status of strace is zero unless
435 there was an unexpected error in doing the tracing.
436 (Addresses Fedora bug #105371 and Debian bug #37665)
437
438* Improvements
439 * Implemented decoding of new Linux syscalls: accept4, dup3,
440 epoll_create1, eventfd2, inotify_init1, pipe2, signalfd4.
441 * Implemented decoding of socket type flags introduced in Linux 2.6.27.
442 * Implemented decoding of accept4 socketcall.
443 * Enhanced prctl decoding.
444 * Enhanced nanosleep decoding.
445 * Enhanced ptrace decoding.
446 * Enhanced futex decoding.
447 * Enhanced CAP_* decoding.
448 * Enhanced SIOCS* ioctls decoding.
449 * Enhanced fcntl F_* flags decoding.
Dmitry V. Levind7bb8b42009-10-08 22:28:57 +0000450 * Enhanced semop/semtimedop decoding.
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000451 * Updated ARM architecture support.
452 * Added Blackfin architecture support.
453 * Added AVR32 architecture support.
454 * Added CRIS architecture support.
455 * Made strace detect when traced process suddenly disappeared.
456
457* Bug fixes
458 * Fixed syscall numbers for tee and sync_file_range.
459 (Addresses Debian bug #503124)
460 * Fixed several bugs in strings decoder, including potential heap
461 memory corruption.
462 (Addresses Fedora bugs #470529, #478324 and #511035)
463 * Marked sendfile(2) as a network syscall.
464 (Addresses Debian bug #509499)
465 * Fixed accept(2) decoding.
Dmitry V. Levinacbe5182010-04-06 23:46:43 +0000466 (Addresses Debian bug #507573)
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000467 * Fixed sigtimedwait(2) decoding.
468 * Fixed build on ARM EABI.
469 (Addresses Debian bugs #520084 and #535564, and Fedora bug #507576)
470 * Fixed display of 32-bit fcntl(F_SETLK) on 64-bit architectures.
471 (Addresses Red Hat bug #471169)
472 * Fixed display of 32-bit argv array on 64-bit architectures.
473 (Addresses Fedora bug #519480)
474 * Fixed display of 32-bit struct sigaction on 64-bit architectures.
Dmitry V. Levin84c693e2009-10-06 10:40:17 +0000475 * Fixed HPPA architecture support.
476 (Addresses Debian bugs #437928 and #546619)
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000477
Roland McGrath09db7052008-08-28 22:00:46 +0000478Changes in 4.5.18
479==============
480* Bug fixes.
481* Support new Linux/PPC system call subpage_prot and PROT_SAO flag.
482* In sigaction system call, display sa_flags value along with SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
483
Roland McGrath55dd2782008-07-18 02:21:11 +0000484Changes in 4.5.17
485==============
486* Many bug fixes.
487* -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now.
488* Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits.
489* Improved output for prctl system call on Linux.
490* Improved support for Linux/ARM.
491* SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND.
492
Roland McGrath47d32232007-08-03 10:28:55 +0000493Changes in 4.5.16
494==============
495* Bug fixes.
496* Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux.
497* Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux.
498* Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd,
499 eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait.
500
Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000501Changes in 4.5.15
502==============
503* Bug fixes.
504* Several biarch improvements.
Roland McGrath0a45fae2007-01-16 23:25:34 +0000505* Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000506* Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
507
Roland McGrathf4d9b492006-01-17 06:22:57 +0000508Changes in 4.5.14
509==============
510* Bug fixes.
511* Accept numeric system calls in -e.
512
Roland McGrathcab43802005-08-03 11:42:35 +0000513Changes in 4.5.13
514==============
515* Bug fixes.
516* Introduce "-e trace=desc".
517
Roland McGrath182cbf42005-06-10 03:56:16 +0000518Changes in 4.5.12
519==============
520* Bug fixes.
521* Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
522* Update PowerPC system calls.
523* Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
524
Roland McGrath7147a3d2005-03-22 23:12:39 +0000525Changes in 4.5.11
526==============
527* Quick fix release for build issues.
528* One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
529
Roland McGrathd8184032005-03-15 02:40:12 +0000530Changes in 4.5.10
531==============
532* Bug fixes.
533* Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
534
Roland McGrathd63311a2005-02-04 09:29:04 +0000535Changes in 4.5.9
536==============
537* Bug fixes.
538* Improve socket ioctl printing.
539* Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
540* Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
541* Improve mount flags printing.
542* Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
543
Roland McGrathf041d472004-10-20 02:17:52 +0000544Changes in 4.5.8
545==============
546* Bug fixes.
547* Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
548* Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
549* Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
550* Improve ioctl command name matching.
551* Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
552* Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
553* Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
554
Roland McGrathb93f9182004-08-31 08:17:20 +0000555Changes in 4.5.7
556==============
557* Bug fixes.
558* Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
559* Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
560* Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
561* Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
562
Roland McGrath785a0262004-07-12 07:55:48 +0000563Changes in 4.5.6
564==============
565* Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
566* David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
567
Roland McGrathb7e2ca12004-06-28 05:24:29 +0000568Changes in 4.5.5
569==============
570* Just bug fixes.
571
Roland McGrathed8e77e2004-06-04 02:35:58 +0000572Changes in 4.5.4
573==============
574* Update Linux ioctl lists.
575* Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
576* The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
577
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000578Changes in 4.5.3
579==============
580* Bug fixes.
581* On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
Roland McGrath5e169a12004-04-16 21:54:56 +0000582* Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000583
Roland McGrathb66e9362004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000584Changes in 4.5.2
585==============
586* Bug fixes.
587* Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
588* Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
589
Roland McGrath00eb84e2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000590Changes in 4.5.1
591==============
592* Bug fixes.
593* Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
594
Roland McGratha3bc12e2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000595Changes in 4.5
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000596==============
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000597* New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000598 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
599* Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
Roland McGrathde6e5332003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000600* New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
Michal Ludvig81a3a9a2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000601* Merged s390/s390x port.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000602* Trace an unbounded number of processes.
Roland McGrath5694e802003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000603* Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000604* Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
Roland McGrath044c8d22002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000605* Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
606 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
Roland McGrath1b86e2d2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000607* Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
Roland McGrathcb612142003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000608* Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
Roland McGrathacd3cd72003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000609* Many other bug fixes.
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000610
Wichert Akkermand22c4a12001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000611Changes in 4.4
612==============
613* Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
614* Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
615 Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
616
Wichert Akkermane70bbe52001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000617Changes in 4.3.1
618================
619* compile fixes for Linux/mips
620
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000621Changes in 4.3
622==============
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000623* Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
Wichert Akkerman7987cdf2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000624* The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
Wichert Akkermana9667852001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000625* Linux ioctl list updated
Wichert Akkermanf1850652001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000626* Support IPv6 scope ids
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000627* FreeBSD/i386 port added
628* UnixWare and Solaris updates
629* Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000630
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000631Changes in 4.2
632==============
633* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
634* Linux/S390 port added
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000635* The usual Linux syscall updates
Wichert Akkerman9148a3b1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000636* we can follow fork on arm now
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000637
Wichert Akkerman2a64b431999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000638Changes in 4.1
639================
640* Linux/MIPS port added
641* Lots of Linux updates again
642* Improved IPv6 support
643* Add strace-graph
644
Wichert Akkerman4a01ca01999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000645Changes in 4.0.1
646================
647* Minor bugfixes
648* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
649
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000650Changes in 4.0
651==============
652* Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
653* Personalities work again
654* Compile correctly on SunOS again
655* IRIX64 updates
656* Solaris updates
657
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000658Changes in 3.99.1
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000659=================
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000660* Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
661* Linux alpha fixes
662* Minor cleanups
663
Wichert Akkermanb859bea1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000664Changes in 3.99
665===============
Wichert Akkerman1786d811999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000666* New maintainer
667* add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
668* support lots more Linux syscalls
669* fix signal handling
670* add IPX and IPIP support
671* check stray syscall after execv
672* fix hanging children
673
Wichert Akkerman76baf7c1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000674Changes in version 3.1
675======================
676
677* Irix5 is supported
678* Linux 68k is supported
679* Linux alpha is supported
680* configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
681* using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
682* output can be piped to a program
683* tracing setuid programs works better
684* it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
685* new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
686 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
687 take a file name as an argument
688* IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
689* Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
690* Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
691* various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
692
693Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
694========================================
695
696* filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
697* string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
698* preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
699* by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
700* all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
701* the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
702
703New Features in version 3.0
704===========================
705
706* non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
707* the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
708* exit values are printed in an alignment column
709* is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
710* various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
711* selective tracing of syscalls
712* selective printing of syscall structures
713* selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
714* selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
715* selective tracing of signals
716* selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
717* selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
718* optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall