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Strace - Debugging tool

Strace is a system call tracer: it traces all system calls made by another process or program. Since the program to be traced does not need to be recompiled before tracing, strace is useful for programs for which the source is not readily available.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/strace/
Source tarball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/strace/strace-4.4.98.tar.bz2?download
Version 4.4.98 (stable) released on 2003-06-13
Licensed under a 3-clause BSD-style license.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Developer List<strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/strace-devel
Bug List<strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/strace-devel

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • See the CREDITS file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@cvs.strace.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/strace
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Use requirementsLinux kernel 2.2.7 or later
Weak prerequisitesLinux kernel 2.4 or later (for tracing multithreaded processes); autoconf; Linux kernel 2.4 kernel headers

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-08-22
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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