strace - Tracks and displays system calls associated with a running process
| Website: | http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/ | 
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| License: | BSD | 
| Vendor: | Fedora Project | 
- Description:
- The strace program intercepts and records the system calls called and received by a running process. Strace can print a record of each system call, its arguments and its return value. Strace is useful for diagnosing problems and debugging, as well as for instructional purposes. Install strace if you need a tool to track the system calls made and received by a process. 
Packages
| strace-4.5.19-1.fc12.x86_64 [169 KiB] | Changelog
              by Roland McGrath (2009-10-21): - New upstream release, work mostly by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
  + exit/kill strace with traced process exitcode/signal (#105371);
  + fixed build on ARM EABI (#507576);
  + fixed display of 32-bit argv array on 64-bit architectures (#519480);
  + fixed display of 32-bit fcntl(F_SETLK) on 64-bit architectures (#471169);
  + fixed several bugs in strings decoder, including potential heap
    memory corruption (#470529, #478324, #511035). |