porting strace to Bionic libc

Philippe Ombredanne pombredanne at nexb.com
Thu Mar 6 14:43:24 UTC 2014


> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Philippe Ombredanne
> <pombredanne at nexb.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:53 AM, enh <enh at google.com> wrote:
>>> and this fixes decoding of fstat64 and friends for an arm32 binary
>>> traced by an arm64 strace...
>>
>> Elliott:
>> Beyond this do you think that there would be enough meat to have a
>> GSOC project idea for a bionic port?
>>
>> and if yes would this be something you could be willing to mentor?

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:19 PM, enh <enh at google.com> wrote:
> i think it would be the shortest ever GSOC project: as of last week,
> tip of tree strace builds out of the box on tip of tree bionic :-)

This is great!

> i'm very tempted to have my intern this summer look at writing
> decoders for Android's ioctls as a warm-up project for them. the
> ioctls are in the main linux kernel staging area now; is that
> "official" enough to be something you'd be interested in having in
> strace?

I am not sure "officialness" is a concern here, right Dmitry?
There are likely some archs that strace supports that are quite more
confidential than that.
-- 
Philippe Ombredanne




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