Show complete arguments in strace even in curly brackets

Question

I know the -s option should display longer arguments, but it doesn\'t work always (probably because of those curly brackets meaning array or nested arguments?).

Answer 1

There is such option in the strace parameters - you should use -v command line switch. Furthermore, due to the opensource nature of this great utility, you can disable abbreviation totally by patching the defs.h header in the strace sources:

< #define abbrev(tcp)   ((tcp)->qual_flg & QUAL_ABBREV)
---
> #define abbrev(tcp)   0

I've patched that way strace-4.9 from my local gentoo /usr/portage/distfiles/ software sources storage. It doesn't require to download latest strace sources from sourceforge.