indented relay traces

Molle Bestefich molle.bestefich at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 08:49:23 CDT 2006


James Hawkins wrote:
> I don't know if you've ever wished the relay traces were indented by
> the level of the call, so you can get a better feel for who calls what
> from where, but I thought it would be nifty.  I've attached a patch
> > for dlls/ntdll/relay.c that gives you this.

Hah, funny..
I made a patch to accomplish exactly the same a year ago.

Eric Pouech wrote:
> this won't work for a multithreaded program

Mine did :-).
Also, it could filter calls beyond a specific level, as a way of
limiting output.

> tools/examine_relay does what you want, plus some other goodies
> (calls that didn't return...)
> IMO it's better to instrument the tools after the relay trace,
> rather than tweaking the trace generation for any potential goodie

IMHO, tools/examine_relay seemed to behave wrongly in some cases and
is also an overly complex solution compared to just doing this at
runtime.  It really doesn't take much code.



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