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

[Dominic Hamon <dominic@google.com>]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

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.

It's a build dependency for another proposed package (ndt) which provides binary clients that are useful for Debian users wanting to test their network performance.

 

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.

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