Diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux
strace
Original author(s)
Paul Kranenburg
Developer(s)
Dmitry Levin
Stable release
6.8[1]
/ 20 March 2024; 58 days ago (20 March 2024)
Repository
github.com/strace/strace
Written in
C[2]
Operating system
Linux
Platform
AArch64, DEC Alpha, ARC, ARM EABI/OABI, AVR32, Blackfin, C-SKY, HP PA-RISC, IA-32, IA-64, LoongArch, Motorola 68k, Imagination META, MicroBlaze, MIPS, Nios II, OpenRISC, Power ISA 32/64 bit, RISC-V, System/390/z/Architecture, SuperH 32/64 bit, SPARC 32/64 bit, TILE, TILEPro, TILE-Gx, x86-64, x32 ABI, Xtensa
Available in
English[note 1]
Type
Debugging
License
LGPL v2.1+[note 2][4]
Website
strace.io
strace is a diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux. It is used to monitor and tamper with interactions between processes and the Linux kernel, which include system calls, signal deliveries, and changes of process state. The operation of strace is made possible by the kernel feature known as ptrace.
Some Unix-like systems provide other diagnostic tools similar to strace, such as truss.
^"Release 6.8". 20 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
^"The strace Open Source Project on Open Hub". Openhub.net. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
^Dmitry V. Levin (2018-12-15). "I: changing the license of strace to a copyleft license" (Mailing list). Retrieved 2021-09-02.
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