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diff --git a/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn b/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn index 68edca2f..f7136056 100644 --- a/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn +++ b/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ -[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software +Foundation, Inc."]] -[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this 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]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] *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 @@ -17,6 +18,8 @@ See `rpctrace --help` about how to use it. # Issues and Patches +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + * <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?2104> -- don't assert that local port names are valid * <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?3939> -- `rpctrace`d program hangs when signal @@ -24,12 +27,32 @@ See `rpctrace --help` about how to use it. * <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?1633> -- terminated with `C-c` `rpctrace`d programs hang * <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?5580> -- more readable output -* <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?20612> -- heisenbug + +* IRC, unknown channel, unknown date + + <youpi> how to rpctrace a translator ? + <youpi> ah, just settrans /usr/bin/rpctrace... + <youpi> hum, it hung, and killing it got a Mach panic (thread in unexpected + state) ... + +* IRC, unknown channel, unknown date + + <antrik> hm... for a funny effect, try running rpctrace on + /servers/socket/1, and then use dpkg... ;-) + +* IRC, unknown channel, unknown date. + + <youpi> the problem of rpctrace is that it's a man in the middle :) + <youpi> so in principle, by design authentication stuff shouldn't work + <antrik> I don't think the Hurd auth mechanism in any way prevents or tries to prevent man-in-the-middle... + <youpi> maybe, but just try, you'll see all kinds of issue as soon as you have authentication stuff + <youpi> and the basic reason is that being a man in the middle needs special care + <youpi> which rpctrace doesn't completely do + <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... -# TODO +# See Also - <youpi> how to rpctrace a translator ? - <youpi> ah, just settrans /usr/bin/rpctrace... - <youpi> hum, it hung, and killing it got a Mach panic (thread in unexpected - state) ... +See also [[open_issues/librpci]]. |