[Toybox] [PATCH] strace: initial commit.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Fri Sep 17 20:55:49 PDT 2021


On 9/17/21 5:54 PM, enh via Toybox wrote:
> i know when rob's talked about "toybox strace", he meant one with no decoding,
> just raw numbers. that doesn't really let me replace "real" strace though (which
> was already a PITA to update, and switched to GPL a year or two back anyway).
> the hope here is to show that we can actually decode without being _too_
> large/complicated...
> 
> the TODO about cases where glibc doesn't use the same structs as the kernel
> points to one of the hairiest issues, plus this would be the first toy where we
> actually need to add a few lines of code for *every* architecture that we want
> "allyesconfig" to build on. i haven't even added arm/arm64 yet! (but i will do
> so if this gets committed.)

This was on my post-1.0 todo list for a reason, but if you wanna open this can
of worms... :)

Applied.

Rob



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