Re: Some fixes in capabilities

[Tony Lambregts]

Medland, Bill wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [e-mail] 
> > [mailto:[e-mail]]On
> > Behalf Of Andreas Mohr
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 1:48 PM
> > To: Lionel Ulmer
> > Cc: Wine Devel
> > Subject: Re: Some fixes in capabilities
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:23:55PM +0100, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> > > Hi all,
>
> snip
> > > Note: is there a way from DLL X to activate relay debugging
> >
> > ? What happens
> > >  is that SS2 somehow freezes at one point and doing a 
> >
> > relay trace from
> > >  the start is about a 3 GB file... So what I would 
> >
> > like to do is at a
> > >  specific function in the D3D code that I know to be 
> >
> > just before the
> > >  freeze, call 'activate relay' and voila, I have 
> >
> > relaying on :-) (to be
> > >  able to do that for all DLLs would be even better).
> > >
> > >  But well, considering DLL separation and all that, I 
> >
> > doubt that this
> > >  would be possible :-/
> >
> > Oh pleeeeze... I thought that at least the Wine developers are reading
> > the wine docu properly... ;-)
> >
> > Let's see... first you use completely inacceptable words, and then
> > you admit to never reading the docu... bad, bad, very bad guy. :)
> >
> > Read wine.man. It explains how to do relay logging for a single DLL.
> > Although I'm afraid that this might actually be broken at the moment
> > maybe :-\
>
> Unfair.
>
> That doesn't help someone who wants a full relay trace because they don't
> know where the problem is, but doesn't want to start until close to the
> problem.  I have myself wished we had the capability.  Admittedly my traces
> were smaller than 3GB but I would be very happy to get rid of the top 100MB
> of the trace.

<ME TOO.. ME TOO ME TOO>

Ok  now that I have gotten that out of my system I would like to say 
that this is at least theoreticaly possible in that winedbg does this 
already.  In winedbg it is possible to turn on any channel (including 
relay) by using the set command. It is in the debuging documentation (I 
wrote the section (not the code)). The problem with using winedbg is 
that turning on relay is that the it turns on relay for the winedbg 
calls as well (rendering it not very usefull).

All that being said. It looks like it is do-able.