[PATCH v6 2/3] Make relevant changes in NEWS and man page
Sahil Siddiq
icegambit91 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 30 12:28:48 UTC 2023
Document the changes in the man page and NEWS.
* doc/strace.1.in: Add -l/--syscall-limit option. Improve description.
* NEWS: Mention this change.
Signed-off-by: Sahil Siddiq <icegambit91 at gmail.com>
---
Changes v5 -> v6:
- NEWS: Move update to current NEWS section
NEWS | 2 ++
doc/strace.1.in | 15 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5bf6c80cb..0af268616 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??)
* Improvements
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.3.
+ * Implemented feature to automatically detach tracees after capturing
+ a specified number of syscalls.
Noteworthy changes in release 6.2 (2023-02-26)
==============================================
diff --git a/doc/strace.1.in b/doc/strace.1.in
index 71661bd2e..75f4ef0cb 100644
--- a/doc/strace.1.in
+++ b/doc/strace.1.in
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ strace \- trace system calls and signals
.OP \-X format
.OM \-P path
.OM \-p pid
+.OP \-l limit
.OP \-\-seccomp\-bpf
.if '@ENABLE_SECONTEXT_FALSE@'#' .OP \-\-secontext\fR[=\fIformat\fR]
.BR "" {
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ strace \- trace system calls and signals
.OP \-U columns
.OM \-P path
.OM \-p pid
+.OP \-l limit
.OP \-\-seccomp\-bpf
.BR "" {
.OR \-p pid
@@ -1332,6 +1334,19 @@ field is not supplied explicitly, it is added as the last column.
.B \-\-summary\-wall\-clock
Summarise the time difference between the beginning and end of
each system call. The default is to summarise the system time.
+.SS Stop condition
+.TP 12
+.BI "\-l " limit
+.TQ
+.BR "\-\-syscall\-limit" = \fIlimit\fR
+Detach all tracees when
+.I limit
+number of syscalls have been captured. Syscalls filtered out via
+.BR \-\-trace ,
+.B \-\-trace\-path
+or
+.B \-\-status
+options are not considered when keeping track of the number of syscalls that are captured.
.SS Tampering
.ad l
.TP 12
--
2.40.0
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