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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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21
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* César Sánchez <cesar.sanchez@imdea.org>
27* Santiago Romero <santiago.romero@imdea.org>
28* Pat Beirne <pbeirne@home.com> (ARM port)
29* Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (m68k port)
30* Morten Eriksen <mortene@sim.no> (misc fixes)
31* Silvio Cesare <silvio@big.net.au> (ELF hacking)
32* Timothy Fesig <slate@us.ibm.com> (S390 port)
33* Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> (Powerpc port)
34* Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> (SPARC port, support for libelf, many fixes)
35* Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld-linux.org> (alpha port)
36* SuSE (amd64 port)
37* Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> (IA64 port)
38* Eric Vaitl <evaitl@cisco.com> (mipsel port)
39* Petr Machata <pmachata@redhat.com> (misc fixes)
40* Joe Damato <ice799@gmail.com> (libdl support, libunwind support)
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421. Introduction
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44
45ltrace is a debugging tool, similar to strace, but it traces library
46calls instead of system calls.
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482. Where can I find it
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51http://www.ltrace.org
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533. How does it work
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56Using software breakpoints, just like gdb.
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584. Where does it work
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60
61It works with ELF based Linux systems running on i386, m68k, S/390,
62ARM, PowerPC, PowerPC64, IA64, AMD64, SPARC and Alpha processors.
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64It is part of at least Debian GNU/Linux, RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake...
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665. Bugs
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69Too many to list here :).  If you like to submit a bug report, or a
70feature request, either do that against the Debian `ltrace' package,
71or mail ltrace-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.
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73This file is very incomplete and out-of-date.
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756. License
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78    Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
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80    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
81    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
82    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
83    (at your option) any later version.
84
85    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
86    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
87    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
88    GNU General Public License for more details.
89
90    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
91    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
92    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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