Re: rpctrace improvement for the Google Summer of Code

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:09:31AM +0100, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> Implementing the possibility of attaching rpctrace to running processes,
> is one possible thing that could be done. But there are many others,
> like adding ability to rpctrace to show the names of the parameters
> (needs rpctrace and mig changes); adding some tool(s) that allow logging
> the interactions between several processes, to help understanding
> complex problems and/or doing system profiling; interactive RPC
> debugging tools (possibly as GDB extension); and so on.
> 
> However, I didn't propose this so far, as tschwinge seems to have a
> perfectly opposite opinion than me on what are suitable tasks and what
> aren't.

Huh, what's that?

In fact, what I told you was that I wouldn't know how to wrap what you
suggested into a concise wording for a GSoC task, so that someone who
isn't familiar with all those Hurd details would know what this task was
about.  I then asked you to come up with such a wording to then install
that task, but, so far, you didn't respond to that plea and instead now
accuse me to not consider your ideas worthwhile?  That doesn't fit.

I mean, these are tasks that require a really intimate knowledge of how
the components of a Hurd system interact with each other.  That's not
something where an ``average student'' could make any sense of.

That's at least my opinion on this matter.


Regards,
 Thomas

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