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From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tr2: log parent process name
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 15:06:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJ70g0Nd1W1f6BIx@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im3qu4gy.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 02:29:15PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 06 2021, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> 
> > It can be useful to tell who invoked Git - was it invoked manually by a
> > user via CLI or script? By an IDE? Knowing where the Git invocation came
> > from can help with debugging to isolate where the problem came from.
> 
> Aside from the portability concerns others have raised, I don't really
> see why you'd need this.
> 
> We already have the nest-level as part of the SID, so isn't it
> sufficient (and portable) at the top-level to log what isatty says + set
> the initial SID "root" in the IDE (which presumably knows about git).

If you already know all the IDEs and scripts which invoke Git, sure, you
could set the SID root - we do this with 'repo' tool today. But actually
we want this because we aren't sure exactly who at Google is invoking
Git in their tooling, how, why, etc. - this logline was supposed to help
with that. Chicken, egg, etc.

Or else I'm misunderstanding your suggestion; to me it sounded like "go
fix your VSCode plugin so that it sets an additional envvar" and I
responded accordingly. If you mean something else I didn't see,
implemented in Git land, then I'm curious to hear more.

> 
> Wouldn't this log passwords in cases of e.g.:
> 
>     some-script --git-password secret # invokes "git"

I have nothing but nasty things to say about scripts which would do
that, but your point is valid enough to make me think this logline
should be gated behind a config and posted much later (when config is
available - I think it's not yet, with the patch as-is).

> 
> In older versions of linux reading e.g. smaps from /proc/self would
> stall the kernel while the read was happening, I haven't checked whether
> cmdline is such a thing (probably not), but it's a subtle thing to have
> in mind for this / follow-ups if it's made portable (is that an issue on
> other OS's?).

That's an interesting point and I wonder how I can validate if it
does/doesn't stall in this way - I guess I can go manpage diving?

 - Emily

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-14 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-07  0:29 [PATCH] tr2: log parent process name Emily Shaffer
2021-05-07  3:25 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-07 17:09 ` Emily Shaffer
2021-05-10 12:29 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-11 21:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-14 22:06   ` Emily Shaffer [this message]
2021-05-16  3:48     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-17 20:17       ` Emily Shaffer
2021-05-11 17:28 ` Jeff Hostetler
2021-05-14 22:07   ` Emily Shaffer
2021-05-20 21:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Emily Shaffer
2021-05-20 21:36   ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-20 23:23     ` Emily Shaffer
2021-05-21 13:20       ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-21 16:24         ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-21  2:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-21 19:02     ` Emily Shaffer
2021-05-21 23:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-24 18:37         ` Emily Shaffer
2021-05-21 19:15   ` Jeff Hostetler
2021-05-21 20:05     ` Emily Shaffer
2021-05-21 20:23       ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-22 11:18       ` Jeff Hostetler
2021-05-24 23:33       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-24 20:10   ` [PATCH v3] " Emily Shaffer
2021-05-24 20:49     ` Emily Shaffer
2021-05-25  3:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-25 13:33       ` Randall S. Becker
2021-06-08 18:58     ` [PATCH v4] " Emily Shaffer
2021-06-08 20:56       ` Emily Shaffer
2021-06-08 22:10       ` [PATCH v5] " Emily Shaffer
2021-06-08 22:16         ` Randall S. Becker
2021-06-08 22:24           ` Emily Shaffer
2021-06-08 22:39             ` Randall S. Becker
2021-06-09 20:17               ` Emily Shaffer
2021-06-16  8:42         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-28 16:45         ` Jeff Hostetler
2021-06-29 23:51           ` Emily Shaffer
2021-06-30  6:10             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-22  0:21               ` Emily Shaffer
2021-07-22  1:27         ` [PATCH v6 0/2] " Emily Shaffer
2021-07-22  1:27           ` [PATCH v6 1/2] tr2: make process info collection platform-generic Emily Shaffer
2021-08-02  9:34             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-22  1:27           ` [PATCH v6 2/2] tr2: log parent process name Emily Shaffer
2021-07-22 21:02             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-02  9:38             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-02 12:45               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-02 10:22             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-02 12:47               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-02 15:23               ` Jeff Hostetler
2021-08-02 16:10               ` Randall S. Becker
2021-08-02 18:41                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-25 23:19               ` [PATCH 0/6] tr2: plug memory leaks + logic errors + Win32 & Linux feature parity Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-25 23:19                 ` [PATCH 1/6] tr2: remove NEEDSWORK comment for "non-procfs" implementations Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-25 23:19                 ` [PATCH 2/6] tr2: clarify TRACE2_PROCESS_INFO_EXIT comment under Linux Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-25 23:19                 ` [PATCH 3/6] tr2: stop leaking "thread_name" memory Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26  3:09                   ` Taylor Blau
2021-08-25 23:19                 ` [PATCH 4/6] tr2: fix memory leak & logic error in 2f732bf15e6 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26  3:21                   ` Taylor Blau
2021-08-25 23:19                 ` [PATCH 5/6] tr2: do compiler enum check in trace2_collect_process_info() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26  3:23                   ` Taylor Blau
2021-08-25 23:19                 ` [PATCH 6/6] tr2: log N parent process names on Linux Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-25 23:49                   ` Eric Sunshine
2021-08-26  4:07                   ` Taylor Blau
2021-08-26 12:24                     ` "I don't know what the author meant by that..." (was "Re: [PATCH 6/6] tr2: log N parent process names on Linux") Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 12:22                 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] tr2: plug memory leaks + logic errors + Win32 & Linux feature parity Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 12:22                   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] tr2: remove NEEDSWORK comment for "non-procfs" implementations Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 12:22                   ` [PATCH v2 2/6] tr2: clarify TRACE2_PROCESS_INFO_EXIT comment under Linux Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 12:22                   ` [PATCH v2 3/6] tr2: stop leaking "thread_name" memory Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 12:22                   ` [PATCH v2 4/6] tr2: fix memory leak & logic error in 2f732bf15e6 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 15:58                     ` Eric Sunshine
2021-08-26 16:42                     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-26 12:22                   ` [PATCH v2 5/6] tr2: do compiler enum check in trace2_collect_process_info() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 12:22                   ` [PATCH v2 6/6] tr2: log N parent process names on Linux Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 22:38                   ` [PATCH v2 0/6] tr2: plug memory leaks + logic errors + Win32 & Linux feature parity Taylor Blau
2021-08-27  8:02                   ` [PATCH v3 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-27  8:02                     ` [PATCH v3 1/6] tr2: remove NEEDSWORK comment for "non-procfs" implementations Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-27  8:02                     ` [PATCH v3 2/6] tr2: clarify TRACE2_PROCESS_INFO_EXIT comment under Linux Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-27  8:02                     ` [PATCH v3 3/6] tr2: stop leaking "thread_name" memory Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-27  8:02                     ` [PATCH v3 4/6] tr2: leave the parent list empty upon failure & don't leak memory Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-27  8:02                     ` [PATCH v3 5/6] tr2: do compiler enum check in trace2_collect_process_info() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-27  8:02                     ` [PATCH v3 6/6] tr2: log N parent process names on Linux Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-31  0:17                     ` [PATCH v3 0/6] tr2: plug memory leaks + logic errors + Win32 & Linux feature parity Taylor Blau
2021-08-02 10:30             ` [PATCH v6 2/2] tr2: log parent process name Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-02 16:24               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-02 18:42                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-22 16:59           ` [PATCH v6 0/2] " Jeff Hostetler

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