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Dmitry V. Levin97cbf692015-12-24 16:53:07 +00004* Improvements
Dmitry V. Levinfa8c2862016-01-22 14:37:14 +00005 * Implemented simultaneous use of -p option and tracing of a command.
6 (addresses Debian bug #549942).
Dmitry V. Levin6bf08e32016-01-07 00:31:33 +00007 * Enhanced decoding of personality, sched_getaffinity,
8 and sched_setaffinity syscalls.
Dmitry V. Levin2720a612016-01-09 00:06:06 +00009 * Enhanced decoding of getxpid, getxuid, and getxgid syscalls on alpha.
Dmitry V. Levinb1110542016-01-09 21:50:30 +000010 * Added decoding of bind, listen, and setsockopt direct syscalls on sparc.
Dmitry V. Levin97cbf692015-12-24 16:53:07 +000011
Dmitry V. Levindd1a80c2015-12-24 15:40:55 +000012* Bug fixes
13 * Fixed build on arc, metag, nios2, or1k, and tile architectures.
Dmitry V. Levinbe1cb922016-01-07 14:20:17 +000014 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit times syscall return value on 64-bit architectures.
Dmitry V. Levinb1110542016-01-09 21:50:30 +000015 * Fixed decoding of mlock2 syscall on sparc.
Dmitry V. Levin1763fa52016-01-13 20:53:41 +000016 * Fixed decoding of syscalls unknown to the kernel on s390/s390x.
17 (addresses Debian bug #485979 and Fedora bug #1298294).
Dmitry V. Levin05a0af62016-01-20 00:17:02 +000018 * Fixed decoding and dumping of readv syscall in case of short read.
Dmitry V. Levind44707d2016-01-20 04:56:25 +000019 * Fixed dumping of recvmsg and recvmmsg syscalls in case of short read.
Dmitry V. Levindfea1da2016-01-29 01:51:54 +000020 * Fixed decoding of mincore syscall's last argument.
Dmitry V. Levindd1a80c2015-12-24 15:40:55 +000021
Dmitry V. Levin2acb0652015-12-21 20:21:22 +000022Noteworthy changes in release 4.11 (2015-12-21)
Dmitry V. Levin91bdbb42015-03-09 22:05:40 +000023===============================================
24
Dmitry V. Levin7405b122015-12-19 20:57:30 +000025* Changes in behavior
26 * Some syscalls have different names depending on architecture and
27 personality. In these cases, syscall filtering and printing now
28 consistently uses the names that match corresponding __NR_* kernel
29 macros of the tracee's architecture and personality.
30 * Added strace prefix to all diagnostic messages.
31
32* Improvements
33 * Enhanced and extended test suite.
34 * Implemented reliable tracing of processes whose personality differs
35 from the personality of strace, fixed decoding of 32-bit personality
36 syscalls on 64-bit architectures.
37 * When some data referenced by syscall arguments is irrelevant or cannot
38 be read from tracee's memory, strace now prints its address consistently.
39 * When a syscall is restarted using restart_syscall mechanism, strace now
40 shows the syscall name on architectures that expose this information.
41 * Print values returned by epoll_create1, eventfd, eventfd2, fanotify_init,
42 inotify_init1, perf_event_open, pipe, pipe2, signalfd, signalfd4, socket,
43 socketpair, timerfd, and timerfd_create syscalls, as well as F_DUPFD and
44 F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC fcntl commands, as file descriptors.
45 * Optimized decoding of indirect socket syscalls.
46 * Implemented decoding of nanoseconds along with seconds in stat family
47 syscalls (addresses Fedora bug #1251176).
48 * Implemented decoding of struct statfs.f_flags in statfs syscall.
49 * Implemented decoding of siginfo_t.si_syscall and siginfo_t.si_arch
50 in SIGSYS signal.
51 * Implemented decoding of indirect syscall on mips o32.
52 * Implemented decoding of IPPROTO_IP control messages.
53 * Implemented decoding of setsockopt syscall multicast arguments.
54 * Enhanced decoding of struct sigevent.
55 * Enhanced decoding of block, loop, mtd, ptp, rtc, SG_IO, socket, tty,
56 and v4l2 ioctl syscall arguments.
57 * Enhanced decoding of epoll_create, fcntl, fcntl64, futex, getdents,
58 getdents64, getsockopt, io_*, mount, msgctl, prctl, quotactl, recvfrom,
59 sendfile, setsockopt, and shmctl syscalls.
60 * Implemented decoding of bpf, execveat, ioperm, iopl, kcmp, kexec_file_load,
61 lookup_dcookie, membarrier, memfd_create, mlock2, name_to_handle_at,
62 open_by_handle_at, sched_getattr, sched_setattr, and userfaultfd syscalls.
63 * Updated lists of AF_*, EPOLL_*, FALLOC_FL_*, F_*, INPUT_PROP_*, IPPROTO_*,
64 IPV6_*, IP_*, KEY_*, LOCK_*, MNT_*, MS_*, PACKET_*, PERF_FLAG_*, PF_*,
65 PR_*, PTRACE_O_*, RENAME_*, SCTP_*, SECBIT_*, SO_*, TCP_*, and siginfo_t
66 constants.
67 * Added Nios II architecture support.
68 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 4.4.
69
70* Bug fixes
71 * Fixed potential short read of strings from tracee's memory.
72 * Fixed -qq option in conjunction with -o option.
73 * Fixed filtering of <unavailable> syscalls.
74 * Fixed decoding of ioctl syscall command on aarch64 and 32-bit architectures
75 with 64-bit aligned structures.
76 * Fixed decoding of eventfd2, epoll_create1, signalfd4, and sync_file_range2
77 syscall flags arguments.
78 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of clock_nanosleep syscall.
79 * Fixed decoding of getpagesize syscall on m68k.
80 * Fixed decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls on aarch64.
81 * Fixed decoding of timezone argument of gettimeofday and settimeofday
82 * syscalls.
83 * Fixed decoding of offset argument of mmap2 syscall on arm, sparc,
84 and sparc64.
85 * Fixed decoding of pipe syscall on alpha and mips.
86 * Fixed decoding of pipe2 syscall on ia64, sh, sparc, and sparc64.
87 * Fixed decoding of signal mask argument of pselect6 syscall on x32.
88 * Fixed decoding of signal mask of rt_sigreturn syscall on aarch64, m68k,
89 and x32.
90 * Fixed decoding of 4th argument of semctl indirect syscall.
91 * Fixed decoding of sa_restorer and sa_mask of sigaction syscall on m68k.
92 * Fixed decoding of statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls on arm eabi.
93 * Fixed decoding of struct dirent on x32.
94 * Fixed decoding of times syscall return value on mips n32 and x32.
95 * Fixed decoding of path argument of umount2 syscall
96 (addresses Debian bug #785050).
97 * Worked around a kernel bug in tracing privileged executables.
98 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
99 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
100 and syscall decoder.
101
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000102Noteworthy changes in release 4.10 (2015-03-06)
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Dmitry V. Levine277a902014-08-19 11:34:44 +0000104
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000105* Improvements
106 * Added -yy option to print protocol and address information associated with
107 socket descriptors.
108 * Extended "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" options to cover sendmsg,
109 recvmsg, sendmmsg, and recvmmsg syscalls.
110 * Implemented full 32-bit decoding of ioctl commands
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000111 (addresses Debian bug #692913 and Fedora bug #902788).
112 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on ia64.
113 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGS API support on mips.
114 * Implemented PTRACE_GETREGSET API support on s390/s390x.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000115 * Implemented decoding of getrandom and seccomp syscalls.
116 * Implemented full decoding of 64-bit capability sets.
117 * Implemented decoding of all prctl commands.
118 * Implemented decoding of parametrized ioctl commands.
119 * Implemented decoding of evdev ioctl commands.
120 * Implemented decoding of v4l ioctl commands.
121 * Implemented decoding of SG_IO v4 ioctl commands.
122 * Implemented decoding of FIFREEZE/FITHAW/FITRIM ioctl commands.
123 * Implemented decoding of FALLOC_FL_* fallocate flags.
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000124 * Implemented decoding of rt_sigreturn signal mask on aarch64,
125 x32, and x86_64.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000126 * Enhanced socket decoder to support bluetooth sockets.
127 * Enhanced decoding of unlisted ioctl commands.
128 * Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscall.
129 * Enhanced decoding of sysinfo syscall.
130 * Enhanced decoding of struct cmsghdr.
131 * Enhanced decoding of wait status.
132 * Enhanced aio support on non-x86 architectures by using external libaio.h.
133 * Added O_TMPFILE to the list of recognized open mode flags.
134 * Updated the list of filesystem type constants that is used in decoding
135 statfs family syscalls.
136 * Updated lists of CAP_*, PR_*, PTRACE_*, SCHED_*, SO_*, SOL_*, SWAP_FLAG_*,
137 and TFD_* constants.
138 * Updated lists of signal constants from Linux 3.19.
139 * Updated lists of errno constants from Linux 3.19.
140 * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 3.9.
141 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.19.
142
143* Bug fixes
144 * Fixed various errors in mapping between syscall numbers and associated
145 information like the number of syscall arguments, the name of syscall,
146 and syscall decoder.
147 * Fixed quoting issues in printing descriptors, filenames, network interface
148 names, struct utsname members, device/volume names of BLK* ioctl commands.
149 * Fixed uid_t/git_t decoding.
150 * Fixed potential out-of-bounds read issues in getdents/getdents64 decoders.
151 * Fixed potential open flags truncation on some architectures.
152 * Fixed decoding of struct ifreq.ifr_name.
153 * Fixed decoding of SIOCSIFNAME ioctl command.
154 * Fixed decoding of RENAME_* renameat2 flags.
155 * Fixed decoding of UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT timeval structures.
156 * Fixed decoding of indirect ipc subcalls on some architectures.
157 * Fixed decoding of fanotify_mark syscall on 32-bit architectures.
158 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit stat structures on 64-bit architectures.
159 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit struct cmsghdr on 64-bit architectures.
160 * Fixed decoding of 32-bit preadv/pwritev offset on 64-bit architectures.
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000161 * Fixed decoding of sigreturn/rt_sigreturn signal mask on ia64, ppc, ppc64,
162 sparc, sparc64, mips, and s390.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000163 * Fixed instruction pointer output (-i option) on architectures that support
164 several personalities.
165 * Fixed behaviour of "-e read=set" and "-e write=set" when read and write
166 sets intersect.
167 * Fixed build on systems where struct sigaction has no sa_restorer member.
168 * Fixed build with uclibc and musl libc.
169
170* Portability
171 * Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required.
172 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_SETOPTIONS support will not work.
Dmitry V. Levindfabccf2015-03-06 13:14:15 +0000173 * On mips, linux kernel >= 2.6.15 is required.
174 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work.
175 * On s390 and s390x, linux kernel >= 2.6.27 is required.
176 Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGSET support will not work.
Dmitry V. Levina671a2c2015-02-23 20:24:00 +0000177
Dmitry V. Levine4db4c42014-08-15 13:14:15 +0000178Noteworthy changes in release 4.9 (2014-08-15)
Dmitry V. Levin02d2c702013-06-05 21:33:45 +0000179==============================================
180
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000181* Changes in behavior
182 * Disabled OABI support on ARM EABI systems by default,
183 added --enable-arm-oabi option to enable it at configure time.
184
Mark Hillse53bf232014-05-28 17:52:40 +0100185* Improvements
Dmitry V. Levin2734a702014-06-18 15:34:27 +0000186 * Added experimental -k option to print stack trace after each traced syscall.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000187 * Added -w option to produce stats on syscall latency.
188 (addresses Debian bug #457497).
189 * Added ARC architecture support.
190 * Added PTRACE_GETREGS API support on PowerPC.
191 * Enhanced Bionic libc and musl libc support.
192 * Enhanced tracing of x86 personality processes on x86_64 and x32.
193 * Enhanced tracing of ARM personality processes on AArch64.
194 * Enhanced 32/64bit personality detection on PowerPC.
Dmitry V. Levin6d32e462014-08-15 00:36:36 +0000195 * Implemented decoding of add_key, ioprio_get, ioprio_set, kexec_load, keyctl,
196 renameat2, and request_key syscalls.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000197 * Robustified decoding of select, pselect, and io_submit syscalls.
Dmitry V. Levin6d32e462014-08-15 00:36:36 +0000198 * Enhanced decoding of delete_module, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, fcntl,
199 setdomainname, sethostname, setns, and sync_file_range syscalls.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000200 * Enhanced decoding of signal bitmasks.
201 * Enhanced decoding of file descriptors.
202 * Enhanced siginfo_t decoding.
203 * Enhanced PF_NETLINK decoding.
204 * Updated CLOCK_* constants
205 (addresses Fedora bug #1088455).
Dmitry V. Levin6d32e462014-08-15 00:36:36 +0000206 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.16.
Dmitry V. Levin327102c2014-06-03 13:31:37 +0000207
208* Bug fixes
209 * Added shmat and shmdt to the set of memory mapping related syscalls.
210 * Fixed detaching from stopped processes.
211 * Fixed fanotify_mark decoding on 32bit architectures.
212 * Fixed offset decoding in preadv and pwritev syscalls.
213 * Fixed select decoding for glibc in _FORTIFY_SOURCE mode.
214 * Fixed decoding of epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_DEL argument.
215 * Fixed build when <sys/ptrace.h> and <linux/ptrace.h> conflict
216 (addresses Fedora bug #993384).
217 * Miscellaneous corrections in the manual page.
218 (Addresses Debian bug #725987).
Mark Hillse53bf232014-05-28 17:52:40 +0100219
Dmitry V. Levind8454112013-06-03 12:34:56 +0000220Noteworthy changes in release 4.8 (2013-06-03)
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000221==============================================
Dmitry V. Levin503faaa2012-05-02 23:00:34 +0000222
Dmitry V. Levind8454112013-06-03 12:34:56 +0000223* Changes in behavior
224 * In case of normal strace termination, when the trace output is
225 redirected to a pipe, strace now closes it and waits for the pipe
226 process termination before exit.
227
228* Improvements
229 * Implemented tracing using PTRACE_SEIZE API (when available).
230 * Implemented more reliable PTRACE_GETREGSET-based process personality
231 detection on x86-64 and x32 (when available).
232 * Added -e trace=memory option for tracing memory mapping related syscalls.
233 * Documented -b option.
234 * Allowed exit status messages to be suppressed by giving -q option twice.
235 * Added AArch64 architecture support
236 (addresses Debian bug #693074 and Fedora bug #969858).
237 * Added support for OpenRISC 1000, Meta, and Xtensa architectures.
238 * Added tilegx personality support for Tile.
239 * Enhanced support of NOMMU architectures.
240 * Enhanced decoding of getdents, mmap, perf_event_open, ptrace, and
241 quotactl syscalls.
242 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 3.9.
Dmitry V. Levin1cd3f5f2013-06-03 16:24:53 +0000243 * Regenerated the list of common ioctl names from Linux 3.9.
Dmitry V. Levind8454112013-06-03 12:34:56 +0000244 * Updated the list of errno constants.
245 * Updated lists of AF_*, MADV_*, MAP_*, MSG_*, MS_*, PF_*, PR_*,
246 PTRACE_O_*, and TCP_* constants.
247 * Implemented decoding of UBI ioctls.
248 * Removed redundant "*32" ioctl names.
249
250* Bug fixes
251 * Fixed ERESTARTNOINTR leaking to userspace on ancient kernels
252 (addresses Fedora bug #659382).
253 * Fixed kernel release string parsing
254 (addresses Debian bug #702309).
255 * Fixed decoding of *xattr syscalls
256 (addresses Fedora bug #885233).
257 * Fixed handling of files with 64-bit inode numbers by 32-bit strace
258 (addresses Fedora bug #912790).
259 * Fixed tracing forks on SPARC.
260 * Fixed decoding of fadvise64, fallocate, ftruncate64, io_submit, pread,
261 preadv, pwrite, pwritev, readahead, sigaltstack, sync_file_range, sysctl,
262 and truncate64 syscalls.
263 * Fixed categories of multiple syscalls on most of supported architectures.
264 * Fixed decoding of non-native 32-bit personality recv[m]msg syscalls.
265 * Fixed decoding of multiple 32-bit personality syscalls on x32.
266 * Fixed decoding of long long syscall arguments on ARM, MIPS/o32, PowerPC,
267 S390x, and Tile architectures.
268 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on S390x.
269 * Fixed sram_alloc decoding on Blackfin.
270 * Fixed build when process_vm_readv is a stab.
271 * Fixed build with older versions of libaio.h.
272
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000273Noteworthy changes in release 4.7 (2012-05-02)
274==============================================
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000275
276* Changes in behavior
277 * strace no longer suspends waitpid until there is a child
278 for waitpid'ing process to collect status from.
279 * strace no longer detaches from a tracee which is supposed
280 to be going to die.
281 * strace now issues a new message: "+++ exited with EXITCODE +++"
282 which shows exact moment strace got exit notification,
283 analogous to existing "+++ killed by SIG +++" message.
284
285* Improvements
Mike Frysinger9b4fca22012-04-27 19:13:55 -0400286 * Added x32 personality support (x86_64 architecture).
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000287 * Added -y and -P options to print file descriptor paths and
288 filter by those paths.
289 * Added -I option to control strace interactivity.
290 * Allowed -p option to take comma or whitespace-separated list of PIDs.
291 * Added strace_log_merge script helper to merge timestamped "strace -ff"
292 log files.
293 * Implemented decoding of clock_adjtime, get_robust_list, migrate_pages,
294 preadv, prlimit64, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, pwritev,
Dmitry V. Levin4ef30632012-05-01 21:04:18 +0000295 recvmmsg, recvmsg, rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sendmmsg, setns, set_robust_list,
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000296 sched_rr_get_interval, splice, syslog, tee and vmsplice syscalls.
297 * Enhanced decoding of capget, capset, getrlimit, flistxattr, io_submit,
298 listxattr, setrlimit and swapon syscalls.
299 * Implemented decoding of loop and mtd ioctls.
300 * Added syscall entries for new linux syscalls.
301 * Added syscall entries for direct socket system calls on powerpc.
302 * Updated the list of errno constants.
Dmitry V. Levina28fbfd2012-05-01 21:17:51 +0000303 * Updated lists of MSG_*, STA_*, and TCP_* constants.
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000304 * Regenerated the list of ioctl names from Linux 3.3.
305 * Enhanced switching between processes with different personalities.
306 * Enhanced signals reporting by using short signal names.
307 * Made ERESTART* messages more descriptive.
308 * Made parsing of numbers from strings more robust.
309 * Added support for compat_statfs64 and statfs64.f_flags.
310 * Changed read of data blocks to use single process_vm_readv syscall
311 (when available) instead of several PTRACE_PEEKDATA operations.
312 * Changed read of registers on x86 and x86-64 to use single PTRACE_GETREGS
313 operation instead of several PTRACE_PEEKUSER operations.
314 * Applied various optimizations to make strace work faster.
315
316* Bug fixes
317 * Implemented proper handling of real SIGTRAPs on kernels supporting
318 PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD.
319 (Addresses Fedora bug #162774).
320 * Fixed sockaddr_un.sun_path name in decoded output.
321 (Addresses Debian bug #554946).
322 * Fixed to avoid potential core file clobbering on exit.
323 (Addresses Debian bug #656398).
324 * Fixed a typo in documentation.
325 (Addresses Debian bug #653309).
326 * Fixed decoding of timer id returned by timer_create.
327 * Fixed epoll_create1, epoll_wait and epoll_pwait decoding.
328 * Fixed *at syscalls flags decoding.
329 * Fixed ARM EABI 64-bit syscall's arguments decoding.
330 * Fixed semtimedop decoding on s390.
331 * Fixed osf_sigprocmask decoding on alpha.
332 * Fixed ipc and socket subcall decoding on several architectures.
333 * Corrected syscall entries for epoll_pwait, epoll_create, epoll_ctl,
334 epoll_wait, mincore, mlockall, prctl, reboot, sendfile, sendfile64,
335 sendmsg, sgetmask, ssetmask, swapon, tgkill and tkill syscalls.
Mike Frysinger9b4fca22012-04-27 19:13:55 -0400336 * Corrected io_* syscall entries on ARM.
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000337 * Fixed PID prefix printing in "strace -oLOG -ff -p1 -p2 -p3" case.
338 * Fixed logging of unfinished lines in "strace -oLOG -ff" case.
339 * Fixed build when libaio-devel is not available.
340 * Fixed configure checks for PTRACE_* constants.
341 * Fixed compilation warnings remained on several architectures.
342
343* Portability
344 * Removed all non-Linux code. After years of neglect, that dead code
345 just hampered further strace development.
Dmitry V. Levin4ef30632012-05-01 21:04:18 +0000346 * Linux kernel >= 2.6.18 is recommended. Older versions might still
347 work but they haven't been thoroughly tested with this release.
Dmitry V. Levin84e50fc2012-04-20 17:32:50 +0000348
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000349Noteworthy changes in release 4.6 (2011-03-15)
350==============================================
Dmitry V. Levin50e69cb2011-02-21 22:58:59 +0000351
352* Changes in behavior
353 * Print diagnostic information about changes in personality mode to
354 standard error instead of standard output.
355
356* Improvements
357 * Implemented a new method of following clone, fork, and vfork
358 syscalls using the Linux kernel's explicit facilities for tracing
359 creation of threads and child processes.
360 * Implemented CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_UNTRACED flags handling.
361 * Implemented decoding of TLS syscalls on m68k.
362 * Implemented biarch support on powerpc64.
363 * Implemented biarch support for getrlimit() and setrlimit().
364 * Implemented decoding of struct ucred in getsockopt SO_PEERCRED.
365 * Implemented SOL_SCTP socket options decoding.
366 * Added HDIO_* ioctl names.
367 (Addresses Debian bug #450953).
368 * Added LOOP_* ioctl names.
369 * Updated lists of CLOCK_*, CLONE_*, MS_*, and SOL_* constants
370 to match Linux 2.6.37.
371 * Updated the list of IPPROTO_* constants to match netinet/in.h.
372 * Implemented decoding of HDIO_* and BLK* ioctls.
373 * Added MicroBlaze architecture support.
374 * Added new syscall entries to match Linux 2.6.37.
375 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from Linux 2.6.37.
376 * Enhanced signal notification decoding.
377 * Documented -C and -D options.
378
379* Bug fixes
380 * Fixed fetching syscall arguments on m68k.
381 * Fixed an error when judging whether a process has children.
382 * Fixed get/set_robust_list syscall numbers for powerpc.
383 * Fixed a corner case in printing clone flags.
384 * Fixed cross-compiling issues.
385 * Fixed build issues on powerpc64, SH and SPARC.
386 * Fixed syscall flags of fstatat*, mmap, mmap2, fadvise64*, swapoff,
387 fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, epoll_create, fallocate,
388 fanotify_init, and fanotify_mark syscalls.
389 * Fixed decoding of get[ug]id, gete[ug]id and setfs[ug]id return values.
390 * Fixed biarch support in IO dumping.
391 * Fixed raw exit_group decoding.
392 * Fixed decoding of file descriptors on 64-bit architectures.
393 * Fixed a corner case in waitpid handling.
394 (Addresses Red Hat bug #663547).
395 * Fixed stat64 decoding on mips
396 (Addresses Debian bug #599028).
397 * Fixed misleading italics in the manual page.
398 (Addresses Debian bug #589323).
399
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000400Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.20 (2010-04-13)
401=================================================
Dmitry V. Levinacbe5182010-04-06 23:46:43 +0000402
403* Improvements
404 * Implemented decoding of new linux syscalls: inotify_init1, recvmmsg.
405 * Implemented basic decoding of new linux syscalls: preadv, pwritev,
406 rt_tgsigqueueinfo, perf_event_open.
407 * Enhanced decoding of recently added syscalls on non-x86 architectures
408 by replacing a bare decoder with elaborate parsers enabled earlier
409 for x86/x86-64.
410 * Implemented -C option to combine regular and -c output.
411 (Addresses Debian bug #466196)
412 * Enhanced decoding of mbind and mremap syscalls.
413 * Enhanced SOL_PACKET socket options decoding.
414 * Regenerated list of ioctl names from linux 2.6.33.
415 * Added TILE architecture support.
416
417* Bug fixes
418 * Fixed build with Linux kernel headers 2.6.32-rc5+.
419 (Addresses Debian bug #560516 and Fedora bug #539044)
420 * Fixed build on mips.
421 * Fixed handling of Linux systems without struct statfs64.
422 * Fixed reporting signal mask by sigreturn on powerpc.
423 * Fixed potential stack buffer overflow in select decoder.
424 (Addresses Fedora bug #556678)
425 * Corrected msgsnd indirect ipccall decoding.
426 * Corrected decoding of 64bit syscalls.
427 (Addresses Debian bug #570603)
428 * Corrected getsockopt decoding on architectures where
429 sizeof(long) > sizeof(int).
430 (Addresses Debian bug #494844)
431 * Corrected decoding of epoll_pwait.
432 (Addresses Debian bug #513014)
433 * Corrected handling of killed threads.
434
Dmitry V. Levindce75932013-04-30 23:52:12 +0000435Noteworthy changes in release 4.5.19 (2009-10-21)
436=================================================
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000437
438* Changes in behavior
439 * When command exits, strace now exits with the same exit status.
440 If command is terminated by a signal, strace terminates itself
441 with the same signal, so that strace can be used as a wrapper
442 process transparent to the invoking parent process.
443 When using -p option, the exit status of strace is zero unless
444 there was an unexpected error in doing the tracing.
445 (Addresses Fedora bug #105371 and Debian bug #37665)
446
447* Improvements
448 * Implemented decoding of new Linux syscalls: accept4, dup3,
449 epoll_create1, eventfd2, inotify_init1, pipe2, signalfd4.
450 * Implemented decoding of socket type flags introduced in Linux 2.6.27.
451 * Implemented decoding of accept4 socketcall.
452 * Enhanced prctl decoding.
453 * Enhanced nanosleep decoding.
454 * Enhanced ptrace decoding.
455 * Enhanced futex decoding.
456 * Enhanced CAP_* decoding.
457 * Enhanced SIOCS* ioctls decoding.
458 * Enhanced fcntl F_* flags decoding.
Dmitry V. Levind7bb8b42009-10-08 22:28:57 +0000459 * Enhanced semop/semtimedop decoding.
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000460 * Updated ARM architecture support.
461 * Added Blackfin architecture support.
462 * Added AVR32 architecture support.
463 * Added CRIS architecture support.
464 * Made strace detect when traced process suddenly disappeared.
465
466* Bug fixes
467 * Fixed syscall numbers for tee and sync_file_range.
468 (Addresses Debian bug #503124)
469 * Fixed several bugs in strings decoder, including potential heap
470 memory corruption.
471 (Addresses Fedora bugs #470529, #478324 and #511035)
472 * Marked sendfile(2) as a network syscall.
473 (Addresses Debian bug #509499)
474 * Fixed accept(2) decoding.
Dmitry V. Levinacbe5182010-04-06 23:46:43 +0000475 (Addresses Debian bug #507573)
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000476 * Fixed sigtimedwait(2) decoding.
477 * Fixed build on ARM EABI.
478 (Addresses Debian bugs #520084 and #535564, and Fedora bug #507576)
479 * Fixed display of 32-bit fcntl(F_SETLK) on 64-bit architectures.
480 (Addresses Red Hat bug #471169)
481 * Fixed display of 32-bit argv array on 64-bit architectures.
482 (Addresses Fedora bug #519480)
483 * Fixed display of 32-bit struct sigaction on 64-bit architectures.
Dmitry V. Levin84c693e2009-10-06 10:40:17 +0000484 * Fixed HPPA architecture support.
485 (Addresses Debian bugs #437928 and #546619)
Dmitry V. Levinfbfed222009-09-14 16:34:34 +0000486
Roland McGrath09db7052008-08-28 22:00:46 +0000487Changes in 4.5.18
488==============
489* Bug fixes.
490* Support new Linux/PPC system call subpage_prot and PROT_SAO flag.
491* In sigaction system call, display sa_flags value along with SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
492
Roland McGrath55dd2782008-07-18 02:21:11 +0000493Changes in 4.5.17
494==============
495* Many bug fixes.
496* -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now.
497* Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits.
498* Improved output for prctl system call on Linux.
499* Improved support for Linux/ARM.
500* SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND.
501
Roland McGrath47d32232007-08-03 10:28:55 +0000502Changes in 4.5.16
503==============
504* Bug fixes.
505* Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux.
506* Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux.
507* Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd,
508 eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait.
509
Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000510Changes in 4.5.15
511==============
512* Bug fixes.
513* Several biarch improvements.
Roland McGrath0a45fae2007-01-16 23:25:34 +0000514* Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000515* Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
516
Roland McGrathf4d9b492006-01-17 06:22:57 +0000517Changes in 4.5.14
518==============
519* Bug fixes.
520* Accept numeric system calls in -e.
521
Roland McGrathcab43802005-08-03 11:42:35 +0000522Changes in 4.5.13
523==============
524* Bug fixes.
525* Introduce "-e trace=desc".
526
Roland McGrath182cbf42005-06-10 03:56:16 +0000527Changes in 4.5.12
528==============
529* Bug fixes.
530* Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
531* Update PowerPC system calls.
532* Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
533
Roland McGrath7147a3d2005-03-22 23:12:39 +0000534Changes in 4.5.11
535==============
536* Quick fix release for build issues.
537* One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
538
Roland McGrathd8184032005-03-15 02:40:12 +0000539Changes in 4.5.10
540==============
541* Bug fixes.
542* Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
543
Roland McGrathd63311a2005-02-04 09:29:04 +0000544Changes in 4.5.9
545==============
546* Bug fixes.
547* Improve socket ioctl printing.
548* Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
549* Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
550* Improve mount flags printing.
551* Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
552
Roland McGrathf041d472004-10-20 02:17:52 +0000553Changes in 4.5.8
554==============
555* Bug fixes.
556* Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
557* Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
558* Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
559* Improve ioctl command name matching.
560* Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
561* Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
562* Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
563
Roland McGrathb93f9182004-08-31 08:17:20 +0000564Changes in 4.5.7
565==============
566* Bug fixes.
567* Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
568* Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
569* Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
570* Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
571
Roland McGrath785a0262004-07-12 07:55:48 +0000572Changes in 4.5.6
573==============
574* Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
575* David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
576
Roland McGrathb7e2ca12004-06-28 05:24:29 +0000577Changes in 4.5.5
578==============
579* Just bug fixes.
580
Roland McGrathed8e77e2004-06-04 02:35:58 +0000581Changes in 4.5.4
582==============
583* Update Linux ioctl lists.
584* Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
585* The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
586
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000587Changes in 4.5.3
588==============
589* Bug fixes.
590* On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
Roland McGrath5e169a12004-04-16 21:54:56 +0000591* Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000592
Roland McGrathb66e9362004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000593Changes in 4.5.2
594==============
595* Bug fixes.
596* Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
597* Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
598
Roland McGrath00eb84e2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000599Changes in 4.5.1
600==============
601* Bug fixes.
602* Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
603
Roland McGratha3bc12e2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000604Changes in 4.5
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000605==============
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000606* New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000607 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
608* Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
Roland McGrathde6e5332003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000609* New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
Michal Ludvig81a3a9a2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000610* Merged s390/s390x port.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000611* Trace an unbounded number of processes.
Roland McGrath5694e802003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000612* Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000613* Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
Roland McGrath044c8d22002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000614* Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
615 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
Roland McGrath1b86e2d2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000616* Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
Roland McGrathcb612142003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000617* Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
Roland McGrathacd3cd72003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000618* Many other bug fixes.
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000619
Wichert Akkermand22c4a12001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000620Changes in 4.4
621==============
622* Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
623* Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
624 Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
625
Wichert Akkermane70bbe52001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000626Changes in 4.3.1
627================
628* compile fixes for Linux/mips
629
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000630Changes in 4.3
631==============
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000632* Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
Wichert Akkerman7987cdf2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000633* The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
Wichert Akkermana9667852001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000634* Linux ioctl list updated
Wichert Akkermanf1850652001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000635* Support IPv6 scope ids
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000636* FreeBSD/i386 port added
637* UnixWare and Solaris updates
638* Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000639
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000640Changes in 4.2
641==============
642* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
643* Linux/S390 port added
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000644* The usual Linux syscall updates
Wichert Akkerman9148a3b1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000645* we can follow fork on arm now
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000646
Wichert Akkerman2a64b431999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000647Changes in 4.1
648================
649* Linux/MIPS port added
650* Lots of Linux updates again
651* Improved IPv6 support
652* Add strace-graph
653
Wichert Akkerman4a01ca01999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000654Changes in 4.0.1
655================
656* Minor bugfixes
657* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
658
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000659Changes in 4.0
660==============
661* Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
662* Personalities work again
663* Compile correctly on SunOS again
664* IRIX64 updates
665* Solaris updates
666
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000667Changes in 3.99.1
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000668=================
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000669* Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
670* Linux alpha fixes
671* Minor cleanups
672
Wichert Akkermanb859bea1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000673Changes in 3.99
674===============
Wichert Akkerman1786d811999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000675* New maintainer
676* add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
677* support lots more Linux syscalls
678* fix signal handling
679* add IPX and IPIP support
680* check stray syscall after execv
681* fix hanging children
682
Wichert Akkerman76baf7c1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000683Changes in version 3.1
684======================
685
686* Irix5 is supported
687* Linux 68k is supported
688* Linux alpha is supported
689* configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
690* using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
691* output can be piped to a program
692* tracing setuid programs works better
693* it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
694* new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
695 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
696 take a file name as an argument
697* IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
698* Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
699* Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
700* various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
701
702Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
703========================================
704
705* filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
706* string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
707* preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
708* by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
709* all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
710* the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
711
712New Features in version 3.0
713===========================
714
715* non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
716* the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
717* exit values are printed in an alignment column
718* is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
719* various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
720* selective tracing of syscalls
721* selective printing of syscall structures
722* selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
723* selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
724* selective tracing of signals
725* selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
726* selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
727* optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall