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Re: RFC for patch to add task_{set,get}_name RPC


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: RFC for patch to add task_{set,get}_name RPC
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 19:20:39 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30)

Thomas Schwinge, le Thu 09 May 2013 18:42:18 +0200, a écrit :
> Then, to what extent are the proposed new RPCs just a specialized
> variant of the generic "port info" RPC that we have been musing about,
> <http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/open_issues/translate_fd_or_port_to_file_name/>,
> in particular the log from IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-03-07? To me it
> would make sense to follow the latter route, so be able to store with
> every generic port some bits of debugging/logging information

Indeed.

> (perhaps literally, like the proposed 32 characters, or perhaps switch
> to dynamically allocated upon setting the information and released
> once the port itself is deallocated),

Either would work, Barry could work on getting the static version
working.

> and that could then be tied to some new --enable-debugging configure
> switch (or simply pinned to --enable-kdb), which, if not specified
> will turn these into MIG_BAD_ID stubs.

Which is fine too.

Samuel



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