Package: strace Version: 4.5.17+cvs080723-2 Severity: normal I just investigated why strace doesn't anymore handle its arguments according to what its manual page states: "Multiple -p options can be used to attach to up to 32 processes in addition to command (which is optional if at least one -p option is given)."
According to strace Changelog this was broken in Lenny and later to "fix" a Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361302 Bug 361302 is invalid. It's completely valid, documented behavior and useful to ask strace to start tracing a new command execution while monitoring what that causes in already running processes. Only thing strace needs to do is check whether the first argument that doesn't start with "-" corresponds to a runnable command in the path. Any other arguments after that should go to that command. This is how numerous other tracing and other programs (like valgrind, xterm etc) work. PS. Manual page could be updated a bit too. Strace doesn't anymore have the 32 process limit. :-) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages strace depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries strace recommends no packages. strace suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
