Noteworthy changes in strace 4.24 (2018-08-14)

• Improvements

  • Implemented decoding of kvm vcpu exit reason (-e kvm=vcpu option),
    requires Linux kernel version 4.16.0 or higher.
  • Implemented decoding of KVM_SET_CPUID2 and KVM_GET_*_CPUID ioctl commands.
  • Enhanced decoding of corner cases of SO_LINGER, SO_PEERCRED,
    and PACKET_STATISTICS getsockopt options.
  • Wired up io_pgetevents and rseq syscalls on hppa, microblaze, mips, powerpc,
    and s390.
  • Updated lists of AUDIT_*, BPF_*, IFA_*, IFLA_*, RTA_*, RTPROT_*, TCP_*,
    TRAP_*, and UDP_* constants.
  • Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 4.18.

• Bug fixes

  • Fixed decoding of Q_XGETQSTAT on non-native personalities.
  • Fixed race condition in aio test.
  • Fixed build with Bionic libc.
  • Fixed build with glibc-2.28.
  • Fixed build in exotic systemd-nspawn based environments.
  • Fixed build on s390 with kernel headers that do not contain Linux commit
    v3.10-rc1201^211.

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
• Dmitry V. Levin
• Elliott Hughes
• Eugene Syromyatnikov
• Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
• Masatake YAMATO
• Pierre Marsais
• Zhibin Li

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.

Downloads

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