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Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/debugging')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn | 7 |
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn b/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn index 46f40508..de46c08d 100644 --- a/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn +++ b/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable @@ -18,6 +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 @@ -26,10 +28,26 @@ See `rpctrace --help` about how to use it. programs hang * <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?5580> -- more readable output +* 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... ;-) -# TODO +* 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) ... + <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... diff --git a/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn b/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn index 1e8c4ef6..b7cfc3c9 100644 --- a/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn +++ b/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -33,6 +34,4 @@ using the appropriate glibc magic (`setvbuf`). Otherwise you'll see text in the output files only if either glibc herself decides to flush (after some KiB of text) the after translator exits. -It is a [[!taglink open_issue_hurd]] to decide / implement / fix that -(all?) running (passive?) translators' output should show up on the -console / syslog. +There is also a [[related open issue|open_issues/translator_stdout_stderr]]. |