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Bug#728808: ITP: web100-userland -- The userland library and utilities for accessing and manipulating web100 TCP/IP instrumentation



On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 10:43 -0800, Dominic Hamon wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Dominic Hamon <dominic@google.com>
> 
> * Package name    : web100-userland
>   Version         : 1.8.0
> * URL             : http://www.web100.org/
> * License         : LGPL
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : The userland library and utilities for accessing and manipulating web100 TCP/IP instrumentation
> 
> The Web100 software implements a set of instruments in the TCP/IP stack
> of an operating system.  The software is divided in two pieces:
> - A patch to the Linux kernel, which collects the data, and...

Which isn't applied in Debian's kernel packages, making this a bit
useless to Debian users in general.

I'm guessing this could be replaced using kprobes or some higher-level
tracing framework.

> - A library and a set of utilities (the userland), for accessing and
>   manipulating these instruments.
> This package provides both the library and utilities.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Horngren's Observation:
                   Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

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