Package: wicd-daemon Version: 1.7.2.4-2 Severity: important Hi,
while playing with auditd, I noticed wicd continuously spawns ifconfig and iwconfig to see what happens on eth0/wlan0. This is really sad… A quick strace + grep during 1 minute shows no fewer than 78 execve on those: 26 iwconfig 52 ifconfig (Default configuration as far as external helpers are concerned, just picked an ESSID and entered a WPA passphrase.) Can be reproduced at home using: timeout 60 strace -o /tmp/wicd.strace -p $foo -p $bar -f -e fork,execve Then grepping (= 0 avoids the ENOENT due to $PATH expansion; otherwise you would count each call 3 times: /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, /sbin): for i in ifconfig iwconfig; do grep -c "execve.*$i.* = 0" /tmp/wicd.strace; done where $foo is wicd-daemon's PID, and $bar is the monitor's PID (spawned by wicd-daemon). Please switch from polling to getting event notifications; netlink sockets to the rescue! I saw similar bug reports but I thought a comprehensive report on the proper package wouldn't hurt: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620955 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645564 Mraw, KiBi. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii dbus 1.6.8-1 ii debconf 1.5.46 ii iproute 20120521-3 ii iputils-ping 3:20101006-1+b1 ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp3-client] 4.2.2.dfsg.1-5+deb70u2 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7 ii net-tools 1.60-24.2 ii psmisc 22.19-1 ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1 ii python-dbus 1.1.1-1 ii python-gobject 3.2.2-1 ii python-wicd 1.7.2.4-2 ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-8 ii wpasupplicant 1.0-2 Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends: ii wicd-gtk [wicd-client] 1.7.2.4-2 Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests: ii pm-utils 1.4.1-9 Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on: ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1 ii python-glade2 2.24.0-3 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3 Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends: ii gksu 2.0.2-6 ii python-notify 0.1.1-3 Versions of packages wicd-curses depends on: ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1 ii python-urwid 1.0.1-2 Versions of packages wicd-curses recommends: ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1 Versions of packages python-wicd depends on: ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1 ii python2.6 2.6.8-0.2 ii python2.7 2.7.3~rc2-2.1 -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
