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1                                ltrace
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3                       A Dynamic Library Tracer
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5         Copyright 1997-2009 Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
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8Contents
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10 0. Authors
11 1. Introduction
12 2. Where can I find it
13 3. How does it work
14 4. Where does it work
15 5. Bugs
16 6. License
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190. Authors
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22ltrace has been developed mainly by Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>,
23but he has received many contributions from other people.  The following
24people have contributed significantly to this project:
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26* Pat Beirne <pbeirne@home.com> (ARM port)
27* Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (m68k port)
28* Morten Eriksen <mortene@sim.no> (misc fixes)
29* Silvio Cesare <silvio@big.net.au> (ELF hacking)
30* Timothy Fesig <slate@us.ibm.com> (S390 port)
31* Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> (Powerpc port)
32* Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> (SPARC port, support for libelf, many fixes)
33* Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld-linux.org> (alpha port)
34* SuSE (amd64 port)
35* Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> (IA64 port)
36* Eric Vaitl <evaitl@cisco.com> (mipsel port)
37* Petr Machata <pmachata@redhat.com> (misc fixes)
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391. Introduction
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42ltrace is a debugging tool, similar to strace, but it traces library
43calls instead of system calls.
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452. Where can I find it
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48http://www.ltrace.org
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503. How does it work
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53Using software breakpoints, just like gdb.
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554. Where does it work
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58It works with ELF based Linux systems running on i386, m68k, S/390,
59ARM, PowerPC, PowerPC64, IA64, AMD64, SPARC and Alpha processors.
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61It is part of at least Debian GNU/Linux, RedHat, SuSE and Mandrake.
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635. Bugs
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66Too many to list here :).  If you like to submit a bug report, or a
67feature request, either do that against the Debian `ltrace' package,
68or mail ltrace-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.
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70This file is very incomplete and out-of-date.
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726. License
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75    Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
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77    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
78    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
79    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
80    (at your option) any later version.
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82    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
83    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
84    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
85    GNU General Public License for more details.
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87    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
88    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
89    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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