Re: Advanced and improved absolute paths decoding

2014-03-02 Thread eQuiNoX
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Zubin Mithra wrote: >> Hey all, >> I'm Zubin and I love low level systems programming! :) > [...] >> I had a look at the ideas list here[1] and found the idea on improved path >> decoding quite interesti

Re: Advanced and improved absolute paths decoding

2014-03-02 Thread Zubin Mithra
>> I believe that the first step would be to document and note down the system >> calls that belong to one or more of the above categories and their system >> call numbers, and if the -yy flag is used, check the tcp->scno against >> these numbers and act accordingly. >> >> Is there something I'm mi

Re: Advanced and improved absolute paths decoding

2014-03-02 Thread Zubin Mithra
Hey Philippe and Dmitry, On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Zubin Mithra wrote: >> Hey all, >> I'm Zubin and I love low level systems programming! :) > [...] >> I had a look at the ideas list here[1] and found the idea on improved path >

Re: Advanced and improved absolute paths decoding

2014-03-02 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 01:18:57PM +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: [...] > > The exact output format may vary, but the general idea of strace decoding > > is to mimic C syntax. From this PoV, path names should always be enclosed > > in d

Re: GSOC: Structured output

2014-03-02 Thread Dennis Borisevich
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 13:22:28 +0100 > Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > With a command line flag to get a structured output the existing > "classical" output would not be created at all in this case. > One goal of a structured output could be to streamline the way output > is created both for structur

Re: porting strace to Bionic libc

2014-03-02 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:53 AM, enh wrote: > and this fixes decoding of fstat64 and friends for an arm32 binary > traced by an arm64 strace... Elliott: Beyond this do you think that there would be enough meat to have a GSOC project idea for a bionic port? and if yes would this be something you

Re: GSOC: Structured output

2014-03-02 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Dennis Borisevich wrote: > Hello. > My name is Denis Borisevich. I am a Belarusian State University > second-year student and I wish to participate in this year's Google > Summer of Code. I am a fan of Unix-like systems and pure C programming. Hi Boris! Welcome an

Re: Advanced and improved absolute paths decoding

2014-03-02 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 11:54:57AM +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: >> >> > Fourth, I think -yy should also "canonicalize" socket descriptors, i.e. >> > print their addresses in <

Re: GSOC: Structured output

2014-03-02 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 02:38:16PM +0300, Dennis Borisevich wrote: > Hello. > My name is Denis Borisevich. I am a Belarusian State University > second-year student and I wish to participate in this year's Google > Summer of Code. I am a fan of Unix-like systems and pure C programming. > > I like t

Re: GSOC 2014~

2014-03-02 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:43 PM, ChenQin wrote: > HERE IS MY REQUEST FOR GSOC 2014~ > Name:ChenQin > Title:Downstream patches roundup and ushering > > Abstract : The goal of this project would to review available patches and > bugs from the key downstream maintainers and either contribute these as

Re: Advanced and improved absolute paths decoding

2014-03-02 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 11:54:57AM +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > > > Fourth, I think -yy should also "canonicalize" socket descriptors, i.e. > > print their addresses in <> form, resembling lsof(8) output. This would > > be a really

GSOC 2014~

2014-03-02 Thread ChenQin
HI~HERE IS MY REQUEST FOR GSOC 2014~Name:ChenQinTitle:Downstream patches roundup and usheringAbstract : The goal of this project would to review available patches and bugs from the key downstream maintainers and either contribute these as patches to strace when relevant or work with the downstream

Better tracing of network calls [was Re: GSOC candidature draft for urgent feedback]

2014-03-02 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:49 PM, enh wrote: > actually, -y was my biggest wish-list feature :-) > > other things i've hated doing manually in the past include working out > exactly what a given socket is (usually "what's the remote address?"). > pipes too. in both cases the default /proc format is

GSOC: Structured output

2014-03-02 Thread Dennis Borisevich
Hello. My name is Denis Borisevich. I am a Belarusian State University second-year student and I wish to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code. I am a fan of Unix-like systems and pure C programming. I like the "Structured Output" idea, and I think it can be extended to a 'modular' outp

Re: Advanced and improved absolute paths decoding

2014-03-02 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:35 PM, eQuiNoX wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:27:37PM +0530, Zubin Mithra wrote: >> > Hey all, >> > I'm Zubin and I love low level systems programming! :) > Also, is there an IRC channel for strace dev? Not for now, but it could make sense to have one at least for

Re: Advanced and improved absolute paths decoding

2014-03-02 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Zubin Mithra wrote: > Hey all, > I'm Zubin and I love low level systems programming! :) [...] > I had a look at the ideas list here[1] and found the idea on improved path > decoding quite interesting and was hoping we could discuss it further on the > mailing list.

Re: Advanced and improved absolute paths decoding

2014-03-02 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > Fourth, I think -yy should also "canonicalize" socket descriptors, i.e. > print their addresses in <> form, resembling lsof(8) output. This would > be a really nice feature. Indeed that would be awesome and help a lot with tracing networ

Re: GSOC 2014

2014-03-02 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Sanidhya Kashyap wrote: > My name is Sanidhya, and I am Masters student at IIIT Hyderabad. I have been > working in the area of OS and Virtualization from the past two and half > years. > > This year, I am interested in participating in Google Summer of Code and I >

Re: [GSOC] Reliable multiarchitecture support

2014-03-02 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Edson Ticona wrote: > My name is Edson Ticona, I am going to start my master studies in > computer science in Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil (I > already have been accepted). I am currently working on the Jicamarca > Radio Observatory in Peru. These mont