5.313. strace

Bug Fix

BZ#849052

Previously, the strace utility used magic breakpoints in the process startup code to detect and control process startup. Consequently, under certain circumstances, the %ebx register could be corrupted around the clone syscall within the libc_fork() function, which could cause an application to terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault while under strace control. This update changes strace to use the TRACE{FORK,VFORK,CLONE} ptrace capabilities which provide a cleaner, less error-prone interface to monitor and control process startup when tracing, thus preventing this bug.