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Roland McGrathed8e77e2004-06-04 02:35:58 +0000[diff] [blame^]1Changes in 4.5.4
2==============
3* Update Linux ioctl lists.
4* Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
5* The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
6
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]7Changes in 4.5.3
8==============
9* Bug fixes.
10* On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
Roland McGrath5e169a12004-04-16 21:54:56 +0000[diff] [blame]11* Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]12
Roland McGrathb66e9362004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000[diff] [blame]13Changes in 4.5.2
14==============
15* Bug fixes.
16* Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
17* Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
18
Roland McGrath00eb84e2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]19Changes in 4.5.1
20==============
21* Bug fixes.
22* Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
23
Roland McGratha3bc12e2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000[diff] [blame]24Changes in 4.5
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]25==============
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]26* New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]27 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
28* Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
Roland McGrathde6e5332003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]29* New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
Michal Ludvig81a3a9a2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]30* Merged s390/s390x port.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]31* Trace an unbounded number of processes.
Roland McGrath5694e802003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000[diff] [blame]32* Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]33* Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
Roland McGrath044c8d22002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000[diff] [blame]34* Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
35 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
Roland McGrath1b86e2d2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]36* Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
Roland McGrathcb612142003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000[diff] [blame]37* Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
Roland McGrathacd3cd72003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000[diff] [blame]38* Many other bug fixes.
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]39
Wichert Akkermand22c4a12001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000[diff] [blame]40Changes in 4.4
41==============
42* Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
43* Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
44 Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
45
Wichert Akkermane70bbe52001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000[diff] [blame]46Changes in 4.3.1
47================
48* compile fixes for Linux/mips
49
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]50Changes in 4.3
51==============
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]52* Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
Wichert Akkerman7987cdf2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000[diff] [blame]53* The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
Wichert Akkermana9667852001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000[diff] [blame]54* Linux ioctl list updated
Wichert Akkermanf1850652001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000[diff] [blame]55* Support IPv6 scope ids
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]56* FreeBSD/i386 port added
57* UnixWare and Solaris updates
58* Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]59
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]60Changes in 4.2
61==============
62* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
63* Linux/S390 port added
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]64* The usual Linux syscall updates
Wichert Akkerman9148a3b1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000[diff] [blame]65* we can follow fork on arm now
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]66
Wichert Akkerman2a64b431999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000[diff] [blame]67Changes in 4.1
68================
69* Linux/MIPS port added
70* Lots of Linux updates again
71* Improved IPv6 support
72* Add strace-graph
73
Wichert Akkerman4a01ca01999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000[diff] [blame]74Changes in 4.0.1
75================
76* Minor bugfixes
77* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
78
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]79Changes in 4.0
80==============
81* Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
82* Personalities work again
83* Compile correctly on SunOS again
84* IRIX64 updates
85* Solaris updates
86
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]87Changes in 3.99.1
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]88=================
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]89* Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
90* Linux alpha fixes
91* Minor cleanups
92
Wichert Akkermanb859bea1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000[diff] [blame]93Changes in 3.99
94===============
Wichert Akkerman1786d811999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000[diff] [blame]95* New maintainer
96* add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
97* support lots more Linux syscalls
98* fix signal handling
99* add IPX and IPIP support
100* check stray syscall after execv
101* fix hanging children
102
Wichert Akkerman76baf7c1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]103Changes in version 3.1
104======================
105
106* Irix5 is supported
107* Linux 68k is supported
108* Linux alpha is supported
109* configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
110* using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
111* output can be piped to a program
112* tracing setuid programs works better
113* it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
114* new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
115 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
116 take a file name as an argument
117* IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
118* Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
119* Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
120* various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
121
122Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
123========================================
124
125* filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
126* string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
127* preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
128* by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
129* all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
130* the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
131
132New Features in version 3.0
133===========================
134
135* non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
136* the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
137* exit values are printed in an alignment column
138* is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
139* various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
140* selective tracing of syscalls
141* selective printing of syscall structures
142* selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
143* selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
144* selective tracing of signals
145* selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
146* selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
147* optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall