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[Kommuru jai shankar reddy]

Can I be provided help in my above doubt and the internal workings of strace

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Kommuru jai shankar reddy <
kommurujaishankarreddy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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%20co
>> ntributors/
>> >> [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
>> >> mailto:evgsyr at gmail.com
>> >> xmpp:esyr at jabber.{ru|org}
>> >>
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>> >
>> > K.jaishankar reddy
>> >
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