NEWS for strace version 4.21

• Changes in behaviour

  • Warning is now issued when -F option is used.
  • Warning is now issued when a tracee with unsupported personality
    is attached.
  • Unknown syscall numbers are now printed in hexadecimal form.

• Improvements

  • Implemented decoding of netlink descriptor attributes as file descriptors.
  • Implemented decoding of hugetlb page size selection flags.
  • Implemented decoding of BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN, BPF_PROG_GET_NEXT_ID,
    BPF_MAP_GET_NEXT_ID, BPF_PROG_GET_FD_BY_ID, BPF_MAP_GET_FD_BY_ID,
    and BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD commands of bpf syscall.
  • Enhanced decoding of get_thread_area, memfd_create, modify_ldt,
    perf_event_open, reboot, s390_guarded_storage, s390_pcio_mmio_read,
    s390_pci_mmio_write, s390_runtime_instr, s390_sthyi, set_thread_area,
    and shmget syscalls.
  • Implemented decoding of KVM_* and DM_LIST_DEVICES ioctl commands.
  • Implemented decoding of riscv_flush_icache syscall.
  • Enhanced decoding of getsockopt and setsockopt syscalls for SOL_NETLINK
    level.
  • Enhanced decoding of BPF_MAP_CREATE command of bpf syscall.
  • Print values returned by mq_open syscall and first arguments
    of mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_timedreceive, and mq_timedsend syscalls
    as file descriptors.
  • Added decoding of get_tls syscall on arm.
  • Added -e trace=%pure option for tracing system calls with no arguments that
    never fail.
  • Updated lists of IPV6_*, MAP_*, MEMBARRIER_CMD_*, MSG_*, NT_*, PKEY_*,
    SHM_*, and TCP_* constants.
  • Added manual page for the strace-log-merge command.
  • Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.15.
  • Implemented biarch support for s390x.
  • Implemented an optional support for symbol demangling in strace -k output
    (activated by --with-libiberty configure option).
  • Information about availability of demangling and reliable personality
    decoding (on architectures with multiple personalities) is now available
    in strace -V output.
  • Added decoding of pkey_alloc, pkey_free, and pkey_mprotect syscalls on
    powerpc and powerpc64.
  • Enhanced manual page.

• Bug fixes

  • Fixed multi-personality support in cross builds.
  • Added mq_getsetattr, mq_notify, mq_open, mq_timedreceive, and mq_timedsend
    syscalls to %desc tracing set.
  • Fixed path tracing support for mmap syscalls with indirect arguments and
    for old select syscall.
  • Fixed decoding of arm-specific (_ARM_NR*) syscalls.
  • Fixed open mode flags decoding.
  • Fixed corner cases in handling of strace -ff -ttt logs by strace-log-merge.
  • Error counts that exceed one billion are now printed correctly in call
    summary output.
  • Fixed call summary header for x32 personality.
  • Changes of tracee personalities are reported more reliably.
  • Fixed the case when strace attaches to a tracee being inside exec and its
    first syscall stop is syscall-exit-stop instead of syscall-enter-stop,
    which messed up all the syscall state tracking.
  • Fixed printing of higher 32 bits of the return value for x32 personality.

• Portability

  • A C compiler that supports "for" loop initial declarations is now required.
  • Inability to configure multiple personality support on architectures where
    multiple personalities are supported leads to configuration failure during
    build now. Use --enable-mpers=check to revert to the old behaviour.
  • Build-time requirement for the mpers support has been lowered from gawk 4
    to gawk 3.
  • Removed incomplete and non-functional support for the CRIS architecture.
  • Removed incomplete and unused support for IA-32 mode on the IA-64
    architecture.

Contributors

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:

Chen Jingpiao
DJ Delorie
Dmitry V. Levin
Elvira Khabirova
Eugene Syromyatnikov
Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
Harsha Sharma
Lubomir Rintel
Masatake YAMATO
Nikolay Marchuk
Rolf Eike Beer
Victor Krapivensky
Vitaly Chaykovsky

Downloads

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