Re: rpctrace improvement -- how I'm going on

[Maurizio Boriani]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:21:26AM +0000, Maurizio Boriani wrote:
> Hi all,
>       I've studied and understand what rpctrace now is and how it work, so 
> I'm ready to develop next things:
>       * add to printed out text msg names and ids.

This is what I've do in order to improve rpctrace with msg characters names:
        * I've searched out much header files in order find out if in some 
structure character name is reposrted, but I ve found noone.
        * I've understand that in mach and hurd structures rpc msgs are indexed 
used ONLY unsigned integer.
        * I've found a fine named subsystems in main hurd source directory wich 
contain base unsigned integer for all subsystems rpc msgs and in some other 
sources I've read which anyone of them contain 200 spaces for procedures, 
functions and so on.
        * In any other file I've not found hardcoded rpc unsigned integer name.
        * So I think is mig which generate this number and hardcode it in 
output file which will be linked whit other souces (clients and server)
        * So I think two solutions: 
                * generate in mach and hurd build time a file in /etc (maybe 
/etc/rpc) with unsigned integer name <-> character name translations.  
                * in rpctrace build parse file generated by mig and hardcode 
translation (unsigned integer VS characters names.

What do you think? This could be right? If yes, IMHO the best solutions is firs 
one (create a index file in /etc)

I'm wait for suggestions.

bye and thank you in advance 

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