| Dmitry V. Levin | dd762c3 | 2012-02-25 15:29:21 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | This is strace, a system call tracer for Linux. |
| Wichert Akkerman | 76baf7c | 1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | |
| Dmitry V. Levin | dd762c3 | 2012-02-25 15:29:21 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | strace is released under a Berkeley-style license at the request |
| Elvira Khabirova | e547035 | 2016-06-16 20:17:59 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | of Paul Kranenburg. |
| Wichert Akkerman | 76baf7c | 1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| Dmitry V. Levin | dd762c3 | 2012-02-25 15:29:21 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | See the file CREDITS for a list of authors and other contributors. |
| Dmitry V. Levin | dd762c3 | 2012-02-25 15:29:21 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. |
| Elvira Khabirova | e547035 | 2016-06-16 20:17:59 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | See the file NEWS for information on what has changed in recent versions. |
| Wichert Akkerman | 76baf7c | 1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | |
| Elvira Khabirova | e547035 | 2016-06-16 20:17:59 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | The project's homepage is at |
| 11 | https://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/ |
| Wichert Akkerman | 76baf7c | 1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | |
| Elvira Khabirova | e547035 | 2016-06-16 20:17:59 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | strace has a mailing list: |
| 14 | strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. |
| Wichert Akkerman | 360815e | 1999-06-28 13:16:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
| Elvira Khabirova | e547035 | 2016-06-16 20:17:59 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | System requirements: |
| 17 | * Linux kernel >= 2.6.18 is recommended. Older versions might still work |
| 18 | but they haven't been thoroughly tested with this release. |
| 19 | * Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required. |
| 20 | Older versions without a decent PTRACE_SETOPTIONS support will not work. |
| 21 | * On mips, linux kernel >= 2.6.15 is required. |
| 22 | Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work. |
| 23 | * On s390 and s390x, linux kernel >= 2.6.27 is required. |
| 24 | Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGSET support will not work. |