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security fixes from 0.3.1.9 (2017 Dec 1) and 0.3.1.10 (March 3)... further info: https://blog.torproject.org/new-stable-tor-releases-security-fixes-and-dos-prevention-03210-03110-02915
author | Erkan Yilmaz <erkan@slitaz.org> |
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date | Tue Mar 27 11:09:07 2018 +0000 (2018-03-27) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/strace/description.txt Tue Mar 27 11:09:07 2018 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ 1.4 +strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace 1.5 +of all the system calls made by a another process/program. The program to be 1.6 +traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which 1.7 +you don't have source. 1.8 + 1.9 +System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface. 1.10 +A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity 1.11 +checking and attempting to capture race conditions.