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Re: rpctrace output improvements?


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: rpctrace output improvements?
Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 15:55:48 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3)

Sergey Bugaev, le jeu. 13 mai 2021 15:28:01 +0300, a ecrit:
> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 11:48 PM Samuel Thibault
> <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
> > It'd probably mean introducing types
> > here and there, but that'd be a really good thing to do.
> >
> > The port type is useful indeed and is most often available in the types
> > already.
> 
> Oh, do you mean the types specified in .defs?

Yes.

> * rpctrace has to learn to parse defs, instead of (or in addition to) msgids
> * GNU MIG needs to be taught to emit more info into msgids files

Either of those. Probably the latter would be more interesting
long-term. We could introduce a new file format that encodes the RPCs
in a way that is easy to parse for programs, similary to what the msgid
files, does, but more powerful.

> And the Hurd also does this, in fact!

> It's just that there's no RPC that exposes this info to clients.

I thought this was added along the get_source RPC, but apparently not.
It could indeed be a useful addition.

Samuel



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