Introduction

[Kommuru jai shankar reddy]

I have a doubt:
         There are three files file_ioctl.c, fs_x_ioctl.c and ioctl.c in
the https://codecov.io/github/strace/strace with their code coverages. Now
I have to find the corresponding test files in the strace/tests/ and modify
them to increase the code coverage right ?

please correct me if I am understanding wrong

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Kommuru jai shankar reddy
> <kommurujaishankarreddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes,  I am interested in the micro project of adding tests to the test
> > suite. Could you please provide suggestions  on getting started to this
> ?
>
> Sure. I'd suggest starting with ioctl decoders that are not shown as
> covered in LCOV reports, these are rather low-hanging fruits. The next
> thing is rarely used features that have no tests or are poorly tested,
> like path tracing or stack printing. It would be also benefitical to
> add some tests that cover some not previously test-covered aspects of
> strace's behaviour, like daemonized tracer, but in order to do that
> properly, some understanding of the strace internal workings is
> needed, and it might be difficult at first.
>
> The tests themselves reside in tests directory. The make target of
> interest is "make check", and you might be interested in
> --enable-code-coverage configuration option.
>
> Note also that code that is not covered by tests is more likely to
> contain errors (especially if it is some obscure ioctl one rarely
> cares about), so do not hesitate to fix it in case discrepancies
> between kernel's and strace's interpretation of syscall arguments are
> observed.
>
> > On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Kommuru jai shankar reddy
> >> <kommurujaishankarreddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >        I'm jaya shankar,. Computer science student of national
> institute
> >> > of
> >> > technology andhra pradesh, India
> >> > I have used strace for my mini project for tracing system calls of
> >> > malware
> >> > executables and it helped me a lot.
> >> > I want to contribute to the community and apply as student for GSOC
> >> > 2k18.
> >> > I'm having knowledge of kernel, C, git and basics of networking.
> >> > So, it would be great if any one suggest me some tasks for micro
> >> > projects
> >> > for gsoc, some bugs to fix for a beginner like me.
> >>
> >> Thank you for showing interest in strace.
> >>
> >> Please take a look at [1], [2], and [3] as starting points. As Chen
> >> JingPiao also noted recently [4], there is an ongoing effort to add
> >> netlink protocol decoding support to strace, which may be of interest,
> >> taking in account aforementioned background.
> >>
> >> If you have any specific questions, don't hesitate to ask.
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> https://sourceforge.net/p/strace/wiki/Guide%20for%20new%20contributors/
> >> [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/strace/wiki/Microprojects/
> >> [3] https://sourceforge.net/p/strace/wiki/FeatureRequests/
> >> [4] https://sourceforge.net/p/strace/mailman/message/36168713/
> >>
> >> --
> >> Eugene Syromyatnikov
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> >> xmpp:esyr at jabber.{ru|org}
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> >
> > K.jaishankar reddy
> >
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