Package: strace Version: 4.5.20-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Please consider applying attached patch. Currently manpage can mislead readers that 'file', 'process', 'network', 'signal', 'ipc', 'desc' are some kind of variables, whereas they should be used literally.
-- Piotr Lewandowski
--- strace-4.5.20/strace.1 2010-04-07 12:19:26.000000000 +0200 +++ strace.1 2010-07-16 18:59:06.738102113 +0200 @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ are being monitored. The default is .BR trace = all . .TP -\fB\-e\ trace\fR=\fIfile\fR +\fB\-e\ trace\fR=file Trace all system calls which take a file name as an argument. You can think of this as an abbreviation for .BR "\-e\ trace" = open , stat , chmod , unlink ,... @@ -417,20 +417,20 @@ .B lstat in the list. Betchya woulda forgot that one. .TP -\fB\-e\ trace\fR=\fIprocess\fR +\fB\-e\ trace\fR=process Trace all system calls which involve process management. This is useful for watching the fork, wait, and exec steps of a process. .TP -\fB\-e\ trace\fR=\fInetwork\fR +\fB\-e\ trace\fR=network Trace all the network related system calls. .TP -\fB\-e\ trace\fR=\fIsignal\fR +\fB\-e\ trace\fR=signal Trace all signal related system calls. .TP -\fB\-e\ trace\fR=\fIipc\fR +\fB\-e\ trace\fR=ipc Trace all IPC related system calls. .TP -\fB\-e\ trace\fR=\fIdesc\fR +\fB\-e\ trace\fR=desc Trace all file descriptor related system calls. .TP \fB\-e\ abbrev\fR=\fIset\fR
