| Wichert Akkerman | d321ff9 | 2002-03-31 18:45:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Source: strace |
| 2 | Section: devel |
| 3 | Priority: standard |
| 4 | Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> |
| 5 | Build-Depends: libc6-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [!alpha !ia64], libc6.1-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [alpha ia64] |
| 6 | Standards-Version: 3.5.2 |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Package: strace |
| 9 | Architecture: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sh sparc |
| 10 | Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} |
| 11 | Description: A system call tracer. |
| 12 | strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out |
| 13 | a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program. |
| 14 | The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can |
| 15 | use it on binaries for which you don't have source. |
| 16 | . |
| 17 | System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel |
| 18 | interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug |
| 19 | isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions. |