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2002-03-31 22:45:45 +04:00
Source: strace
Section: devel
Priority: standard
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
Uploaders: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>, Roland McGrath <frob@debian.org>
2002-03-31 22:45:45 +04:00
Build-Depends: libc6-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [!alpha !ia64], libc6.1-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [alpha ia64]
Standards-Version: 3.5.2
Package: strace
Architecture: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sh sparc
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: A system call tracer.
strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out
a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program.
The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can
use it on binaries for which you don't have source.
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System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel
interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug
isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions.