open_issues/librpci: New.

3 files changed, 48 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn b/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn
index de46c08d..f7136056 100644
--- a/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc."]]
 
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 Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled
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+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
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 *rpctrace* is -- roughly -- an equivavlent to Linux's *strace* or Solaris' or
 BSD's *truss*.  It is used to trace [[remote_procedure_call|rpc]]s a process is
@@ -51,3 +51,8 @@ See `rpctrace --help` about how to use it.
         <antrik> it's a while since I have dived into rpctrace; but AIUI, it should work just fine if the proxying is done properly
         <antrik> note that there is a number of known bugs in rpctrace, for which zhengda has sent patches... though I haven't reviewed all of them I think
         <antrik> there are some nasty Mach operations that are really hard to proxy -- but I don't think the auth mechanism needs any of these...
+
+
+# See Also
+
+See also [[open_issues/librpci]].
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/rpc.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/rpc.mdwn
index 60275a86..422e0441 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/rpc.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/rpc.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software
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@@ -19,3 +19,10 @@ implementation in the kernel possible, too, which is called *NORMA*, but is not
 avilable in [[GNU Mach|gnumach]].
 
 The RPC stub code generated by [[MIG]].
+
+
+# Tracing
+
+  * [[hurd/debugging/rpctrace]]
+
+  * [[open_issues/librpci]]
diff --git a/open_issues/librpci.mdwn b/open_issues/librpci.mdwn
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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
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+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]]
+
+2004 to 2007, Anand Babu has been working some on this project.  It is still in
+rather early stages.  It's meant to become an extension/complement to
+[[hurd/debugging/rpctrace]].
+
+  * <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/rpci>
+
+    > A C language library for interposing ports of a Hurd task running on top
+    > of GNU Mach micro-kernel. Using this library, it would be possible to
+    > implement a trace/replay system, RPC debugger, sandbox, etc.
+
+    On top of that, a debugger was planned:
+
+    > A RPC level debugger with useful command set to analyze/manipulate a task
+    > at run time. For example, the user will be able to set RPC break points,
+    > manipulate port rights and data, trace and replay a task.
+
+If there is interest, the existing source code could be moved from the CVS
+repository into the [[source_repositories/incubator]] ([[tschwinge]] already
+locally converted it to Git.)