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Dmitry V. Levin2acb0652015-12-21 20:21:22 +00001Noteworthy changes in release 4.11 (2015-12-21)
Dmitry V. Levin91bdbb42015-03-09 22:05:40 +00002===============================================
3
Dmitry V. Levin7405b122015-12-19 20:57:30 +00004* Changes in behavior
5 * Some syscalls have different names depending on architecture and
6 personality. In these cases, syscall filtering and printing now
7 consistently uses the names that match corresponding __NR_* kernel
8 macros of the tracee's architecture and personality.
9 * Added strace prefix to all diagnostic messages.
10
11* Improvements
12 * Enhanced and extended test suite.
13 * Implemented reliable tracing of processes whose personality differs
14 from the personality of strace, fixed decoding of 32-bit personality
15 syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
16 * When some data referenced by syscall arguments is irrelevant or cannot
17 be read from tracee's memory, strace now prints its address consistently.
18 * When a syscall is restarted using restart_syscall mechanism, strace now
19 shows the syscall name on architectures that expose this information.
20 * Print values returned by epoll_create1, eventfd, eventfd2, fanotify_init,
21 inotify_init1, perf_event_open, pipe, pipe2, signalfd, signalfd4, socket,
22 socketpair, timerfd, and timerfd_create syscalls, as well as F_DUPFD and
23 F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC fcntl commands, as file descriptors.
24 * Optimized decoding of indirect socket syscalls.
25 * Implemented decoding of nanoseconds along with seconds in stat family
26 syscalls (addresses Fedora bug #1251176).
27 * Implemented decoding of struct statfs.f_flags in statfs syscall.
28 * Implemented decoding of siginfo_t.si_syscall and siginfo_t.si_arch
29 in SIGSYS signal.
30 * Implemented decoding of indirect syscall on mips o32.
31 * Implemented decoding of IPPROTO_IP control messages.
32 * Implemented decoding of setsockopt syscall multicast arguments.
33 * Enhanced decoding of struct sigevent.
34 * Enhanced decoding of block, loop, mtd, ptp, rtc, SG_IO, socket, tty,
35 and v4l2 ioctl syscall arguments.
36 * Enhanced decoding of epoll_create, fcntl, fcntl64, futex, getdents,
37 getdents64, getsockopt, io_*, mount, msgctl, prctl, quotactl, recvfrom,
38 sendfile, setsockopt, and shmctl syscalls.
39 * Implemented decoding of bpf, execveat, ioperm, iopl, kcmp, kexec_file_load,
40 lookup_dcookie, membarrier, memfd_create, mlock2, name_to_handle_at,
41 open_by_handle_at, sched_getattr, sched_setattr, and userfaultfd syscalls.
42 * Updated lists of AF_*, EPOLL_*, FALLOC_FL_*, F_*, INPUT_PROP_*, IPPROTO_*,
43 IPV6_*, IP_*, KEY_*, LOCK_*, MNT_*, MS_*, PACKET_*, PERF_FLAG_*, PF_*,
44 PR_*, PTRACE_O_*, RENAME_*, SCTP_*, SECBIT_*, SO_*, TCP_*, and siginfo_t
45 constants.
46 * Added Nios II architecture support.
47 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 4.4.
48
49* Bug fixes
50 * Fixed potential short read of strings from tracee's memory.
51 * Fixed -qq option in conjunction with -o option.
52 * Fixed filtering of <unavailable> syscalls.
53 * Fixed decoding of ioctl syscall command on aarch64 and 32-bit architectures
54 with 64-bit aligned structures.
55 * Fixed decoding of eventfd2, epoll_create1, signalfd4, and sync_file_range2
56 syscall flags arguments.
57 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of clock_nanosleep syscall.
58 * Fixed decoding of getpagesize syscall on m68k.
59 * Fixed decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls on aarch64.
60 * Fixed decoding of timezone argument of gettimeofday and settimeofday
61 * syscalls.
62 * Fixed decoding of offset argument of mmap2 syscall on arm, sparc,
63 and sparc64.
64 * Fixed decoding of pipe syscall on alpha and mips.
65 * Fixed decoding of pipe2 syscall on ia64, sh, sparc, and sparc64.
66 * Fixed decoding of signal mask argument of pselect6 syscall on x32.
67 * Fixed decoding of signal mask of rt_sigreturn syscall on aarch64, m68k,
68 and x32.
69 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of semctl indirect syscall.
70 * Fixed decoding of sa_restorer and sa_mask of sigaction syscall on m68k.
71 * Fixed decoding of statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls on arm eabi.
72 * Fixed decoding of struct dirent on x32.
73 * Fixed decoding of times syscall return value on mips n32 and x32.
74 * Fixed decoding of path argument of umount2 syscall
75 (addresses Debian bug #785050).
76 * Worked around a kernel bug in tracing privileged executables.
77 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
78 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
79 and syscall decoder.
80
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +000081Noteworthy changes in release 4.10 (2015-03-06)
82===============================================
Dmitry V. Levine277a902014-08-19 11:34:44 +000083
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +000084* Improvements
85 * Added -yy option to print protocol and address information associated with
86 socket descriptors.
87 * Extended "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" options to cover sendmsg,
88 recvmsg, sendmmsg, and recvmmsg syscalls.
89 * Implemented full 32-bit decoding of ioctl commands
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +000090 (addresses Debian bug #692913 and Fedora bug #902788).
91 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on ia64.
92 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on mips.
93 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGSET API support on s390/s390x.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +000094 * Implemented decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls.
95 * Implemented full decoding of 64-bit capability sets.
96 * Implemented decoding of all prctl commands.
97 * Implemented decoding of parametrized ioctl commands.
98 * Implemented decoding of evdev ioctl commands.
99 * Implemented decoding of v4l ioctl commands.
100 * Implemented decoding of SG_IO v4 ioctl commands.
101 * Implemented decoding of FIFREEZE/FITHAW/FITRIM ioctl commands.
102 * Implemented decoding of FALLOC_FL_* fallocate flags.
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000103 * Implemented decoding of rt_sigreturn signal mask on aarch64,
104 x32, and x86_64.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000105 * Enhanced socket decoder to support bluetooth sockets.
106 * Enhanced decoding of unlisted ioctl commands.
107 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscall.
108 * Enhanced decoding of sysinfo syscall.
109 * Enhanced decoding of struct cmsghdr.
110 * Enhanced decoding of wait status.
111 * Enhanced aio support on non-x86 architectures by using external libaio.h.
112 * Added O_TMPFILE to the list of recognized open mode flags.
113 * Updated the list of filesystem type constants that is used in decoding
114 statfs family syscalls.
115 * Updated lists of CAP_*, PR_*, PTRACE_*, SCHED_*, SO_*, SOL_*, SWAP_FLAG_*,
116 and TFD_* constants.
117 * Updated lists of signal constants from Linux 3.19.
118 * Updated lists of errno constants from Linux 3.19.
119 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 3.9.
120 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.19.
121
122* Bug fixes
123 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
124 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
125 and syscall decoder.
126 * Fixed quoting issues in printing descriptors, filenames, network interface
127 names, struct utsname members, device/volume names of BLK* ioctl commands.
128 * Fixed uid_t/git_t decoding.
129 * Fixed potential out-of-bounds read issues in getdents/getdents64 decoders.
130 * Fixed potential open flags truncation on some architectures.
131 * Fixed decoding of struct ifreq.ifr_name.
132 * Fixed decoding of SIOCSIFNAME ioctl command.
133 * Fixed decoding of RENAME_* renameat2 flags.
134 * Fixed decoding of UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT timeval structures.
135 * Fixed decoding of indirect ipc subcalls on some architectures.
136 * Fixed decoding of fanotify_mark syscall on 32-bit architectures.
137 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit stat structures on 64-bit architectures.
138 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit struct cmsghdr on 64-bit architectures.
139 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit preadv/pwritev offset on 64-bit architectures.
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000140 * Fixed decoding of sigreturn/rt_sigreturn signal mask on ia64, ppc, ppc64,
141 sparc, sparc64, mips, and s390.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000142 * Fixed instruction pointer output (-i option) on architectures that support
143 several personalities.
144 * Fixed behaviour of "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" when read and write
145 sets intersect.
146 * Fixed build on systems where struct sigaction has no sa_restorer member.
147 * Fixed build with uclibc and musl libc.
148
149* Portability
150 * Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required.
151 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_SETOPTIONS support will not work.
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000152 * On mips, linux kernel >= 2.6.15 is required.
153 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work.
154 * On s390 and s390x, linux kernel >= 2.6.27 is required.
155 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGSET support will not work.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000156
Dmitry V. Levine4db4c42014-08-15 13:14:15 +0000157Noteworthy changes in release 4.9 (2014-08-15)
Dmitry V. Levin02d2c702013-06-05 21:33:45 +0000158==============================================
159
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000160* Changes in behavior
161 * Disabled OABI support on ARM EABI systems by default,
162 added --enable-arm-oabi option to enable it at configure time.
163
Mark Hillse53bf232014-05-28 17:52:40 +0100164* Improvements
Dmitry V. Levin2734a702014-06-18 15:34:27 +0000165 * Added experimental -k option to print stack trace after each traced syscall.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000166 * Added -w option to produce stats on syscall latency.
167 (addresses Debian bug #457497).
168 * Added ARC architecture support.
169 * Added PTRACE_GETREGS API support on PowerPC.
170 * Enhanced Bionic libc and musl libc support.
171 * Enhanced tracing of x86 personality processes on x86_64 and x32.
172 * Enhanced tracing of ARM personality processes on AArch64.
173 * Enhanced 32/64bit personality detection on PowerPC.
Dmitry V. Levin6d32e462014-08-15 00:36:36 +0000174 * Implemented decoding of add_key, ioprio_get, ioprio_set, kexec_load, keyctl,
175 renameat2, and request_key syscalls.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000176 * Robustified decoding of select, pselect, and io_submit syscalls.
Dmitry V. Levin6d32e462014-08-15 00:36:36 +0000177 * Enhanced decoding of delete_module, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, fcntl,
178 setdomainname, sethostname, setns, and sync_file_range syscalls.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000179 * Enhanced decoding of signal bitmasks.
180 * Enhanced decoding of file descriptors.
181 * Enhanced siginfo_t decoding.
182 * Enhanced PF_NETLINK decoding.
183 * Updated CLOCK_* constants
184 (addresses Fedora bug #1088455).
Dmitry V. Levin6d32e462014-08-15 00:36:36 +0000185 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.16.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000186
187* Bug fixes
188 * Added shmat and shmdt to the set of memory mapping related syscalls.
189 * Fixed detaching from stopped processes.
190 * Fixed fanotify_mark decoding on 32bit architectures.
191 * Fixed offset decoding in preadv and pwritev syscalls.
192 * Fixed select decoding for glibc in _FORTIFY_SOURCE mode.
193 * Fixed decoding of epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_DEL argument.
194 * Fixed build when <sys/ptrace.h> and <linux/ptrace.h> conflict
195 (addresses Fedora bug #993384).
196 * Miscellaneous corrections in the manual page.
197 (Addresses Debian bug #725987).
Mark Hillse53bf232014-05-28 17:52:40 +0100198
Dmitry V. Levind8454112013-06-03 12:34:56 +0000199Noteworthy changes in release 4.8 (2013-06-03)
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000200==============================================
Dmitry V. Levin503faaa2012-05-02 23:00:34 +0000201
Dmitry V. Levind8454112013-06-03 12:34:56 +0000202* Changes in behavior
203 * In case of normal strace termination, when the trace output is
204 redirected to a pipe, strace now closes it and waits for the pipe
205 process termination before exit.
206
207* Improvements
208 * Implemented tracing using PTRACE_SEIZE API (when available).
209 * Implemented more reliable PTRACE_GETREGSET-based process personality
210 detection on x86-64 and x32 (when available).
211 * Added -e trace=memory option for tracing memory mapping related syscalls.
212 * Documented -b option.
213 * Allowed exit status messages to be suppressed by giving -q option twice.
214 * Added AArch64 architecture support
215 (addresses Debian bug #693074 and Fedora bug #969858).
216 * Added support for OpenRISC 1000, Meta, and Xtensa architectures.
217 * Added tilegx personality support for Tile.
218 * Enhanced support of NOMMU architectures.
219 * Enhanced decoding of getdents, mmap, perf_event_open, ptrace, and
220 quotactl syscalls.
221 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.9.
Dmitry V. Levin1cd3f5f2013-06-03 16:24:53 +0000222 * Regenerated the list of common ioctl names from Linux 3.9.
Dmitry V. Levind8454112013-06-03 12:34:56 +0000223 * Updated the list of errno constants.
224 * Updated lists of AF_*, MADV_*, MAP_*, MSG_*, MS_*, PF_*, PR_*,
225 PTRACE_O_*, and TCP_* constants.
226 * Implemented decoding of UBI ioctls.
227 * Removed redundant "*32" ioctl names.
228
229* Bug fixes
230 * Fixed ERESTARTNOINTR leaking to userspace on ancient kernels
231 (addresses Fedora bug #659382).
232 * Fixed kernel release string parsing
233 (addresses Debian bug #702309).
234 * Fixed decoding of *xattr syscalls
235 (addresses Fedora bug #885233).
236 * Fixed handling of files with 64-bit inode numbers by 32-bit strace
237 (addresses Fedora bug #912790).
238 * Fixed tracing forks on SPARC.
239 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, ftruncate64, io_submit, pread,
240 preadv, pwrite, pwritev, readahead, sigaltstack, sync_file_range, sysctl,
241 and truncate64 syscalls.
242 * Fixed categories of multiple syscalls on most of supported architectures.
243 * Fixed decoding of non-native 32-bit personality recv[m]msg syscalls.
244 * Fixed decoding of multiple 32-bit personality syscalls on x32.
245 * Fixed decoding of long long syscall arguments on ARM, MIPS/o32, PowerPC,
246 S390x, and Tile architectures.
247 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on S390x.
248 * Fixed sram_alloc decoding on Blackfin.
249 * Fixed build when process_vm_readv is a stab.
250 * Fixed build with older versions of libaio.h.
251
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000252Noteworthy changes in release 4.7 (2012-05-02)
253==============================================
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000254
255* Changes in behavior
256 * strace no longer suspends waitpid until there is a child
257 for waitpid'ing process to collect status from.
258 * strace no longer detaches from a tracee which is supposed
259 to be going to die.
260 * strace now issues a new message: "+++ exited with EXITCODE +++"
261 which shows exact moment strace got exit notification,
262 analogous to existing "+++ killed by SIG +++" message.
263
264* Improvements
Mike Frysinger9b4fca22012-04-27 19:13:55 -0400265 * Added x32 personality support (x86_64 architecture).
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000266 * Added -y and -P options to print file descriptor paths and
267 filter by those paths.
268 * Added -I option to control strace interactivity.
269 * Allowed -p option to take comma or whitespace-separated list of PIDs.
270 * Added strace_log_merge script helper to merge timestamped "strace -ff"
271 log files.
272 * Implemented decoding of clock_adjtime, get_robust_list, migrate_pages,
273 preadv, prlimit64, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, pwritev,
Dmitry V. Levin4ef30632012-05-01 21:04:18 +0000274 recvmmsg, recvmsg, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sendmmsg, setns, set_robust_list,
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000275 sched_rr_get_interval, splice, syslog, tee and vmsplice syscalls.
276 * Enhanced decoding of capget, capset, getrlimit, flistxattr, io_submit,
277 listxattr, setrlimit and swapon syscalls.
278 * Implemented decoding of loop and mtd ioctls.
279 * Added syscall entries for new linux syscalls.
280 * Added syscall entries for direct socket system calls on powerpc.
281 * Updated the list of errno constants.
Dmitry V. Levina28fbfd2012-05-01 21:17:51 +0000282 * Updated lists of MSG_*, STA_*, and TCP_* constants.
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000283 * Regenerated the list of ioctl names from Linux 3.3.
284 * Enhanced switching between processes with different personalities.
285 * Enhanced signals reporting by using short signal names.
286 * Made ERESTART* messages more descriptive.
287 * Made parsing of numbers from strings more robust.
288 * Added support for compat_statfs64 and statfs64.f_flags.
289 * Changed read of data blocks to use single process_vm_readv syscall
290 (when available) instead of several PTRACE_PEEKDATA operations.
291 * Changed read of registers on x86 and x86-64 to use single PTRACE_GETREGS
292 operation instead of several PTRACE_PEEKUSER operations.
293 * Applied various optimizations to make strace work faster.
294
295* Bug fixes
296 * Implemented proper handling of real SIGTRAPs on kernels supporting
297 PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD.
298 (Addresses Fedora bug #162774).
299 * Fixed sockaddr_un.sun_path name in decoded output.
300 (Addresses Debian bug #554946).
301 * Fixed to avoid potential core file clobbering on exit.
302 (Addresses Debian bug #656398).
303 * Fixed a typo in documentation.
304 (Addresses Debian bug #653309).
305 * Fixed decoding of timer id returned by timer_create.
306 * Fixed epoll_create1, epoll_wait and epoll_pwait decoding.
307 * Fixed *at syscalls flags decoding.
308 * Fixed ARM EABI 64-bit syscall's arguments decoding.
309 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on s390.
310 * Fixed osf_sigprocmask decoding on alpha.
311 * Fixed ipc and socket subcall decoding on several architectures.
312 * Corrected syscall entries for epoll_pwait, epoll_create, epoll_ctl,
313 epoll_wait, mincore, mlockall, prctl, reboot, sendfile, sendfile64,
314 sendmsg, sgetmask, ssetmask, swapon, tgkill and tkill syscalls.
Mike Frysinger9b4fca22012-04-27 19:13:55 -0400315 * Corrected io_* syscall entries on ARM.
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000316 * Fixed PID prefix printing in "strace -oLOG -ff -p1 -p2 -p3" case.
317 * Fixed logging of unfinished lines in "strace -oLOG -ff" case.
318 * Fixed build when libaio-devel is not available.
319 * Fixed configure checks for PTRACE_* constants.
320 * Fixed compilation warnings remained on several architectures.
321
322* Portability
323 * Removed all non-Linux code. After years of neglect, that dead code
324 just hampered further strace development.
Dmitry V. Levin4ef30632012-05-01 21:04:18 +0000325 * Linux kernel >= 2.6.18 is recommended. Older versions might still
326 work but they haven't been thoroughly tested with this release.
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000327
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000328Noteworthy changes in release 4.6 (2011-03-15)
329==============================================
Dmitry V. Levin50e69cb2011-02-21 22:58:59 +0000330
331* Changes in behavior
332 * Print diagnostic information about changes in personality mode to
333 standard error instead of standard output.
334
335* Improvements
336 * Implemented a new method of following clone, fork, and vfork
337 syscalls using the Linux kernel's explicit facilities for tracing
338 creation of threads and child processes.
339 * Implemented CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_UNTRACED flags handling.
340 * Implemented decoding of TLS syscalls on m68k.
341 * Implemented biarch support on powerpc64.
342 * Implemented biarch support for getrlimit() and setrlimit().
343 * Implemented decoding of struct ucred in getsockopt SO_PEERCRED.
344 * Implemented SOL_SCTP socket options decoding.
345 * Added HDIO_* ioctl names.
346 (Addresses Debian bug #450953).
347 * Added LOOP_* ioctl names.
348 * Updated lists of CLOCK_*, CLONE_*, MS_*, and SOL_* constants
349 to match Linux 2.6.37.
350 * Updated the list of IPPROTO_* constants to match netinet/in.h.
351 * Implemented decoding of HDIO_* and BLK* ioctls.
352 * Added MicroBlaze architecture support.
353 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 2.6.37.
354 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from Linux 2.6.37.
355 * Enhanced signal notification decoding.
356 * Documented -C and -D options.
357
358* Bug fixes
359 * Fixed fetching syscall arguments on m68k.
360 * Fixed an error when judging whether a process has children.
361 * Fixed get/set_robust_list syscall numbers for powerpc.
362 * Fixed a corner case in printing clone flags.
363 * Fixed cross-compiling issues.
364 * Fixed build issues on powerpc64, SH and SPARC.
365 * Fixed syscall flags of fstatat*, mmap, mmap2, fadvise64*, swapoff,
366 fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, epoll_create, fallocate,
367 fanotify_init, and fanotify_mark syscalls.
368 * Fixed decoding of get[ug]id, gete[ug]id and setfs[ug]id return values.
369 * Fixed biarch support in IO dumping.
370 * Fixed raw exit_group decoding.
371 * Fixed decoding of file descriptors on 64-bit architectures.
372 * Fixed a corner case in waitpid handling.
373 (Addresses Red Hat bug #663547).
374 * Fixed stat64 decoding on mips
375 (Addresses Debian bug #599028).
376 * Fixed misleading italics in the manual page.
377 (Addresses Debian bug #589323).
378
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000379Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.20 (2010-04-13)
380=================================================
Dmitry V. Levinacbe5182010-04-06 23:46:43 +0000381
382* Improvements
383 * Implemented decoding of new linux syscalls: inotify_init1, recvmmsg.
384 * Implemented basic decoding of new linux syscalls: preadv, pwritev,
385 rt_tgsigqueueinfo, perf_event_open.
386 * Enhanced decoding of recently added syscalls on non-x86 architectures
387 by replacing a bare decoder with elaborate parsers enabled earlier
388 for x86/x86-64.
389 * Implemented -C option to combine regular and -c output.
390 (Addresses Debian bug #466196)
391 * Enhanced decoding of mbind and mremap syscalls.
392 * Enhanced SOL_PACKET socket options decoding.
393 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from linux 2.6.33.
394 * Added TILE architecture support.
395
396* Bug fixes
397 * Fixed build with Linux kernel headers 2.6.32-rc5+.
398 (Addresses Debian bug #560516 and Fedora bug #539044)
399 * Fixed build on mips.
400 * Fixed handling of Linux systems without struct statfs64.
401 * Fixed reporting signal mask by sigreturn on powerpc.
402 * Fixed potential stack buffer overflow in select decoder.
403 (Addresses Fedora bug #556678)
404 * Corrected msgsnd indirect ipccall decoding.
405 * Corrected decoding of 64bit syscalls.
406 (Addresses Debian bug #570603)
407 * Corrected getsockopt decoding on architectures where
408 sizeof(long) > sizeof(int).
409 (Addresses Debian bug #494844)
410 * Corrected decoding of epoll_pwait.
411 (Addresses Debian bug #513014)
412 * Corrected handling of killed threads.
413
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000414Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.19 (2009-10-21)
415=================================================
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000416
417* Changes in behavior
418 * When command exits, strace now exits with the same exit status.
419 If command is terminated by a signal, strace terminates itself
420 with the same signal, so that strace can be used as a wrapper
421 process transparent to the invoking parent process.
422 When using -p option, the exit status of strace is zero unless
423 there was an unexpected error in doing the tracing.
424 (Addresses Fedora bug #105371 and Debian bug #37665)
425
426* Improvements
427 * Implemented decoding of new Linux syscalls: accept4, dup3,
428 epoll_create1, eventfd2, inotify_init1, pipe2, signalfd4.
429 * Implemented decoding of socket type flags introduced in Linux 2.6.27.
430 * Implemented decoding of accept4 socketcall.
431 * Enhanced prctl decoding.
432 * Enhanced nanosleep decoding.
433 * Enhanced ptrace decoding.
434 * Enhanced futex decoding.
435 * Enhanced CAP_* decoding.
436 * Enhanced SIOCS* ioctls decoding.
437 * Enhanced fcntl F_* flags decoding.
Dmitry V. Levind7bb8b42009-10-08 22:28:57 +0000438 * Enhanced semop/semtimedop decoding.
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000439 * Updated ARM architecture support.
440 * Added Blackfin architecture support.
441 * Added AVR32 architecture support.
442 * Added CRIS architecture support.
443 * Made strace detect when traced process suddenly disappeared.
444
445* Bug fixes
446 * Fixed syscall numbers for tee and sync_file_range.
447 (Addresses Debian bug #503124)
448 * Fixed several bugs in strings decoder, including potential heap
449 memory corruption.
450 (Addresses Fedora bugs #470529, #478324 and #511035)
451 * Marked sendfile(2) as a network syscall.
452 (Addresses Debian bug #509499)
453 * Fixed accept(2) decoding.
Dmitry V. Levinacbe5182010-04-06 23:46:43 +0000454 (Addresses Debian bug #507573)
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000455 * Fixed sigtimedwait(2) decoding.
456 * Fixed build on ARM EABI.
457 (Addresses Debian bugs #520084 and #535564, and Fedora bug #507576)
458 * Fixed display of 32-bit fcntl(F_SETLK) on 64-bit architectures.
459 (Addresses Red Hat bug #471169)
460 * Fixed display of 32-bit argv array on 64-bit architectures.
461 (Addresses Fedora bug #519480)
462 * Fixed display of 32-bit struct sigaction on 64-bit architectures.
Dmitry V. Levin84c693e2009-10-06 10:40:17 +0000463 * Fixed HPPA architecture support.
464 (Addresses Debian bugs #437928 and #546619)
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000465
Roland McGrath09db7052008-08-28 22:00:46 +0000466Changes in 4.5.18
467==============
468* Bug fixes.
469* Support new Linux/PPC system call subpage_prot and PROT_SAO flag.
470* In sigaction system call, display sa_flags value along with SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
471
Roland McGrath55dd2782008-07-18 02:21:11 +0000472Changes in 4.5.17
473==============
474* Many bug fixes.
475* -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now.
476* Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits.
477* Improved output for prctl system call on Linux.
478* Improved support for Linux/ARM.
479* SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND.
480
Roland McGrath47d32232007-08-03 10:28:55 +0000481Changes in 4.5.16
482==============
483* Bug fixes.
484* Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux.
485* Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux.
486* Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd,
487 eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait.
488
Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000489Changes in 4.5.15
490==============
491* Bug fixes.
492* Several biarch improvements.
Roland McGrath0a45fae2007-01-16 23:25:34 +0000493* Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000494* Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
495
Roland McGrathf4d9b492006-01-17 06:22:57 +0000496Changes in 4.5.14
497==============
498* Bug fixes.
499* Accept numeric system calls in -e.
500
Roland McGrathcab43802005-08-03 11:42:35 +0000501Changes in 4.5.13
502==============
503* Bug fixes.
504* Introduce "-e trace=desc".
505
Roland McGrath182cbf42005-06-10 03:56:16 +0000506Changes in 4.5.12
507==============
508* Bug fixes.
509* Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
510* Update PowerPC system calls.
511* Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
512
Roland McGrath7147a3d2005-03-22 23:12:39 +0000513Changes in 4.5.11
514==============
515* Quick fix release for build issues.
516* One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
517
Roland McGrathd8184032005-03-15 02:40:12 +0000518Changes in 4.5.10
519==============
520* Bug fixes.
521* Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
522
Roland McGrathd63311a2005-02-04 09:29:04 +0000523Changes in 4.5.9
524==============
525* Bug fixes.
526* Improve socket ioctl printing.
527* Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
528* Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
529* Improve mount flags printing.
530* Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
531
Roland McGrathf041d472004-10-20 02:17:52 +0000532Changes in 4.5.8
533==============
534* Bug fixes.
535* Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
536* Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
537* Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
538* Improve ioctl command name matching.
539* Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
540* Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
541* Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
542
Roland McGrathb93f9182004-08-31 08:17:20 +0000543Changes in 4.5.7
544==============
545* Bug fixes.
546* Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
547* Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
548* Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
549* Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
550
Roland McGrath785a0262004-07-12 07:55:48 +0000551Changes in 4.5.6
552==============
553* Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
554* David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
555
Roland McGrathb7e2ca12004-06-28 05:24:29 +0000556Changes in 4.5.5
557==============
558* Just bug fixes.
559
Roland McGrathed8e77e2004-06-04 02:35:58 +0000560Changes in 4.5.4
561==============
562* Update Linux ioctl lists.
563* Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
564* The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
565
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000566Changes in 4.5.3
567==============
568* Bug fixes.
569* On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
Roland McGrath5e169a12004-04-16 21:54:56 +0000570* Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000571
Roland McGrathb66e9362004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000572Changes in 4.5.2
573==============
574* Bug fixes.
575* Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
576* Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
577
Roland McGrath00eb84e2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000578Changes in 4.5.1
579==============
580* Bug fixes.
581* Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
582
Roland McGratha3bc12e2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000583Changes in 4.5
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000584==============
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000585* New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000586 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
587* Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
Roland McGrathde6e5332003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000588* New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
Michal Ludvig81a3a9a2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000589* Merged s390/s390x port.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000590* Trace an unbounded number of processes.
Roland McGrath5694e802003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000591* Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000592* Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
Roland McGrath044c8d22002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000593* Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
594 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
Roland McGrath1b86e2d2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000595* Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
Roland McGrathcb612142003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000596* Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
Roland McGrathacd3cd72003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000597* Many other bug fixes.
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000598
Wichert Akkermand22c4a12001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000599Changes in 4.4
600==============
601* Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
602* Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
603 Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
604
Wichert Akkermane70bbe52001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000605Changes in 4.3.1
606================
607* compile fixes for Linux/mips
608
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000609Changes in 4.3
610==============
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000611* Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
Wichert Akkerman7987cdf2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000612* The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
Wichert Akkermana9667852001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000613* Linux ioctl list updated
Wichert Akkermanf1850652001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000614* Support IPv6 scope ids
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000615* FreeBSD/i386 port added
616* UnixWare and Solaris updates
617* Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000618
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000619Changes in 4.2
620==============
621* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
622* Linux/S390 port added
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000623* The usual Linux syscall updates
Wichert Akkerman9148a3b1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000624* we can follow fork on arm now
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000625
Wichert Akkerman2a64b431999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000626Changes in 4.1
627================
628* Linux/MIPS port added
629* Lots of Linux updates again
630* Improved IPv6 support
631* Add strace-graph
632
Wichert Akkerman4a01ca01999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000633Changes in 4.0.1
634================
635* Minor bugfixes
636* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
637
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000638Changes in 4.0
639==============
640* Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
641* Personalities work again
642* Compile correctly on SunOS again
643* IRIX64 updates
644* Solaris updates
645
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000646Changes in 3.99.1
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000647=================
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000648* Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
649* Linux alpha fixes
650* Minor cleanups
651
Wichert Akkermanb859bea1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000652Changes in 3.99
653===============
Wichert Akkerman1786d811999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000654* New maintainer
655* add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
656* support lots more Linux syscalls
657* fix signal handling
658* add IPX and IPIP support
659* check stray syscall after execv
660* fix hanging children
661
Wichert Akkerman76baf7c1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000662Changes in version 3.1
663======================
664
665* Irix5 is supported
666* Linux 68k is supported
667* Linux alpha is supported
668* configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
669* using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
670* output can be piped to a program
671* tracing setuid programs works better
672* it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
673* new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
674 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
675 take a file name as an argument
676* IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
677* Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
678* Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
679* various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
680
681Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
682========================================
683
684* filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
685* string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
686* preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
687* by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
688* all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
689* the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
690
691New Features in version 3.0
692===========================
693
694* non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
695* the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
696* exit values are printed in an alignment column
697* is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
698* various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
699* selective tracing of syscalls
700* selective printing of syscall structures
701* selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
702* selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
703* selective tracing of signals
704* selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
705* selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
706* optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall