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On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 19:40 +0000, Александр Берсенев wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I am doing auto dependency builder project for GSoC 2011. Here is the |
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> description of my project: |
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> I plan to start coding with writing a tool on C for launching a |
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> program and logging its file access events to the log file. The format |
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> of log file record: seconds from launch, type of event, name of the |
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> file, and all parent processes. |
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> I want to try the this file logging approach first: to modify |
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> LD_PRELOAD environment var of each child process and catch library |
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> calls. If it will be not good I plan to try another approaches, |
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> described in my proposal. Also I like using the clone of root |
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> filesystem mounted through FUSE for logging. |
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> After that I plan to write a tool on python that launch a logging tool |
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> on C and parse logfile of it. |
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> I have some questions for starting: |
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> - Should I use a tool on C and parse logfile of it or write a logging |
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> python module instead? |
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What about writing the logging portion in cython so that it can have the |
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speed of c with the ease of integrating with python code. |
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> I plan to address other questions to my mentor if I reach him. |
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> Best, |
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> Alexander Bersenev |
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Alex, if you have any need to obtain info about the package using the |
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portage api, or gentoolkit api's I can help you with that. |
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Brian Dolbec <brian.dolbec@×××××.com> |
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