Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:51:31 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47610 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201510172251.t9HMpVB2016476@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sat Oct 17 22:51:31 2015 New Revision: 47610 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47610 Log: Add truss report from jhb Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sat Oct 17 22:42:26 2015 (r47609) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sat Oct 17 22:51:31 2015 (r47610) @@ -2516,4 +2516,68 @@ </help> </project> + <project cat='bin'> + <title>truss(1)</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>John</given> + <common>Baldwin</common> + </name> + <email>jhb@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Bryan</given> + <common>Drewery</common> + </name> + <email>bdrewery@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>The interface between the ABI-specific backends and the truss + core was refactored, reducing duplicated code. This prompted + additional follow-on work to add support for more ABIs, including + aarch64 and CloudABI.</p> + + <p>In addition, ptrace(2) was extended to return more + information about the currently executing system call. This + restored behavior that had been present in a previous verison of + truss of knowing the correct number of arguments for all system + calls.</p> + + <p>The fork-following support in truss was reworked to use + native fork following in ptrace(2) rather than forking a new truss + process for each child of a traced process.</p> + + <p>Support for decoding more arguments has also been added in + the last quarter as well. + </p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Create a new libsysdecode library to hold shared code + between truss(1) and kdump(1).</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Decode more system call arguments.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Add appropriate system call decoding specifications for + freebsd32 system calls.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Implement an ABI for 64-bit Linux binaries under + &os;/amd64.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> + </report>
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