-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-10733 2009-10-27 04:59:53 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : strace Product : Fedora 10 Version : 4.5.19 Release : 1.fc10 URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/ Summary : Tracks and displays system calls associated with a running process 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes numerous bugs, adds support for some newer system calls, and improves the data display for others. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Oct 21 2009 Roland McGrath <[email protected]> - 4.5.19-1 - New upstream release, work mostly by Dmitry V. Levin <[email protected]> + 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). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #105371 - RFE: exit/kill strace with traced child's exitcode/signal https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105371 [ 2 ] Bug #507576 - strace fails to build on ARM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507576 [ 3 ] Bug #519480 - 64-bit strace is lazy on execve of 32-bit process https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519480 [ 4 ] Bug #471169 - [ biarch ] format fcntl64() system calls for 32 bit application incorrect. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471169 [ 5 ] Bug #470529 - F10 strace glibc memory corruption backtrace https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470529 [ 6 ] Bug #478324 - [patch] strace: buffer overflow in function printstr https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478324 [ 7 ] Bug #511035 - strace internal memory corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511035 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update strace' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
