1 This is strace, a system call tracer for Linux. 2 3 strace is released under a Berkeley-style license at the request 4 of Paul Kranenburg. 5 6 See the file CREDITS for a list of authors and other contributors. 7 See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. 8 See the file NEWS for information on what has changed in recent versions. 9 10 The project's homepage is at 11 https://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/ 12 13 strace has a mailing list: 14 strace-devel (a] lists.sourceforge.net. 15 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. 25