| Wichert Akkerman | d321ff9 | 2002-03-31 18:45:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Source: strace |
| Roland McGrath | 6b3b1fc | 2004-07-12 07:27:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | Section: utils |
| Wichert Akkerman | d321ff9 | 2002-03-31 18:45:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | Priority: standard |
| Roland McGrath | a03d227 | 2003-01-10 07:50:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | Maintainer: Roland McGrath <frob@debian.org> |
| 5 | Uploaders: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> |
| Wichert Akkerman | d321ff9 | 2002-03-31 18:45:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | Build-Depends: libc6-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [!alpha !ia64], libc6.1-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [alpha ia64] |
| Roland McGrath | 75a2c61 | 2004-03-02 08:07:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | Standards-Version: 3.6.1 |
| Wichert Akkerman | d321ff9 | 2002-03-31 18:45:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | |
| 9 | Package: strace |
| Roland McGrath | 27387f9 | 2004-06-04 02:01:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | Architecture: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sh sparc |
| Wichert Akkerman | d321ff9 | 2002-03-31 18:45:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} |
| Wichert Akkerman | 136bbb1 | 2003-01-08 23:46:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | Description: A system call tracer |
| Wichert Akkerman | d321ff9 | 2002-03-31 18:45:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out |
| 14 | a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program. |
| 15 | The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can |
| 16 | use it on binaries for which you don't have source. |
| 17 | . |
| 18 | System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel |
| 19 | interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug |
| 20 | isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions. |