Thanks All for the suggestions... Will do it in the 2nd way... Thank-you, Hebbar
> -----Original Message----- > From: wayland-devel [mailto:wayland-devel- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bryce W. Harrington > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 2:58 AM > To: Srivardhan > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Suggestions on implementing Wayland Protocol Dumper. > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:17:20AM +0530, Srivardhan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The following are the ways in which a Protocol Dumper can be > implemented: > > 1. Just before sending a message or when a message is received, the > > message can be written to a file. This change can be done in > > libwayland under #ifdef DEBUG. So when built enabling DEBUG, we should > > get all the protocol messages. > > 2. We can introduce another layer in Weston for monitoring. This layer > > would act as Man in the middle. This layer would listen to a socket to > > which all the Wayland clients would attach and this layer would in > > turn attach to the server socket. This layer would print the messages > > it received from the client and would transfer to the server and vise > > a versa. This could be included in #ifdef DEBUG, so that it is enabled only in > DEBUG builds. > > > > I feel the 1st approach is simpler, What are your thoughts? > > When I worked at Canonical, us X guys would periodically get called on to > help troubleshoot issues where a client app was getting an X11 error, and > needed to utilize xtrace to identify the protocol error. In some cases this > debugging was done on production or embedded hardware where we > couldn't quite so easily recompile or reinstall X, and in one case was with > commercial software for which we didn't have source access. So for this use > case, having the protocol dumper configurable as a separate (packaged and > pre-compiled) application was advantageous. > > So, while #1 does indeed sound simpler, based on experience debugging > similar issues in X, I think #2 is going to prove more flexible in the long term. > > Bryce > > > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
