Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 is distributed with strace 4.7, which provides a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements over the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system version. Below is a comprehensive list of new features in this release.
The following features have been added since the release of strace in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and 5.9:
- A new command line option,
-y, has been added. This option can be used to print file descriptor paths. - A new command line option,
-P, has been added. This option can be used to filter system calls based on the file descriptor paths. - A new command line option,
-I, has been added. This option can be used to control how interactivestraceis. - A new command line utility,
strace-log-merge, has been added. This utility can be used to merge timestampedstraceoutput into a single file. - The
straceutility now uses optimized interfaces to extract data from the traced process for better performance. - The
straceutility now provides improved support for decoding of arguments for various system calls. In addition, a number of new system calls are supported.