Source: strace Section: devel Priority: standard Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman Build-Depends: libc6-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [!alpha], libc6.1-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [alpha] Standards-Version: 3.5.2 Package: strace Architecture: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sh sparc Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Description: A system call tracer. strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program. The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which you don't have source. . System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions.