git/compat
Emily Shaffer 2f732bf15e tr2: log parent process name
It can be useful to tell who invoked Git - was it invoked manually by a
user via CLI or script? By an IDE?  In some cases - like 'repo' tool -
we can influence the source code and set the GIT_TRACE2_PARENT_SID
environment variable from the caller process. In 'repo''s case, that
parent SID is manipulated to include the string "repo", which means we
can positively identify when Git was invoked by 'repo' tool. However,
identifying parents that way requires both that we know which tools
invoke Git and that we have the ability to modify the source code of
those tools. It cannot scale to keep up with the various IDEs and
wrappers which use Git, most of which we don't know about. Learning
which tools and wrappers invoke Git, and how, would give us insight to
decide where to improve Git's usability and performance.

Unfortunately, there's no cross-platform reliable way to gather the name
of the parent process. If procfs is present, we can use that; otherwise
we will need to discover the name another way. However, the process ID
should be sufficient to look up the process name on most platforms, so
that code may be shareable.

Git for Windows gathers similar information and logs it as a "data_json"
event. However, since "data_json" has a variable format, it is difficult
to parse effectively in some languages; instead, let's pursue a
dedicated "cmd_ancestry" event to record information about the ancestry
of the current process and a consistent, parseable way.

Git for Windows also gathers information about more than one generation
of parent. In Linux further ancestry info can be gathered with procfs,
but it's unwieldy to do so. In the interest of later moving Git for
Windows ancestry logging to the 'cmd_ancestry' event, and in the
interest of later adding more ancestry to the Linux implementation - or
of adding this functionality to other platforms which have an easier
time walking the process tree - let's make 'cmd_ancestry' accept an
array of parentage.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-22 13:35:20 -07:00
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linux tr2: log parent process name 2021-07-22 13:35:20 -07:00
nedmalloc Fix spelling errors in no-longer-updated-from-upstream modules 2019-11-10 16:00:55 +09:00
poll mingw: workaround for hangs when sending STDIN 2020-02-27 14:23:29 -08:00
regex compat/regex: move stdlib.h up in inclusion chain 2020-04-27 11:21:16 -07:00
simple-ipc simple-ipc: add Unix domain socket implementation 2021-03-22 11:52:54 -07:00
stub tr2: make process info collection platform-generic 2021-07-22 13:35:20 -07:00
vcbuild ci(vs-build): stop passing the iconv library location explicitly 2020-12-04 12:03:15 -08:00
win32 run-command: trigger PATH lookup properly on Cygwin 2020-03-27 11:06:17 -07:00
access.c git-compat-util: work around for access(X_OK) under root 2019-04-25 17:49:44 +09:00
apple-common-crypto.h imap-send: use HMAC() function provided by OpenSSL 2016-04-08 11:45:47 -07:00
basename.c compat/basename.c: provide a dirname() compatibility function 2016-01-12 10:40:54 -08:00
bswap.h compat/bswap.h: don't assume MSVC is little-endian 2020-11-11 11:24:47 -08:00
compiler.h bugreport: add compiler info 2020-04-16 15:23:42 -07:00
fileno.c git-compat-util: work around for access(X_OK) under root 2019-04-25 17:49:44 +09:00
fopen.c git_fopen: fix a sparse 'not declared' warning 2017-05-26 12:33:55 +09:00
hstrerror.c compat/hstrerror: convert sprintf to snprintf 2015-09-25 10:18:18 -07:00
inet_ntop.c compat/inet_ntop: fix off-by-one in inet_ntop4 2015-09-25 10:18:18 -07:00
inet_pton.c
memmem.c
mingw.c msvc: avoid calling access("NUL", flags) 2021-04-16 12:05:32 -07:00
mingw.h Makefile: add OPEN_RETURNS_EINTR knob 2021-02-26 14:15:51 -08:00
mkdir.c
mkdtemp.c
mmap.c compat: make sure git_mmap is not expected to write 2018-10-25 18:51:03 +09:00
msvc.c
msvc.h msvc: add pragmas for common warnings 2019-06-25 10:46:57 -07:00
obstack.c compat/obstack: fix -Wcast-function-type warnings 2019-01-17 11:13:38 -08:00
obstack.h obstack: avoid computing offsets from NULL pointer 2020-01-28 23:13:25 -08:00
open.c Makefile: add OPEN_RETURNS_EINTR knob 2021-02-26 14:15:51 -08:00
pread.c
precompose_utf8.c precompose_utf8: make precompose_string_if_needed() public 2021-04-05 17:30:04 -07:00
precompose_utf8.h precompose_utf8: make precompose_string_if_needed() public 2021-04-05 17:30:04 -07:00
qsort_s.c compat: add qsort_s() 2017-01-23 11:02:34 -08:00
setenv.c use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation 2016-02-22 14:51:09 -08:00
sha1-chunked.c sha1: allow limiting the size of the data passed to SHA1_Update() 2015-11-05 10:35:11 -08:00
sha1-chunked.h sha1: allow limiting the size of the data passed to SHA1_Update() 2015-11-05 10:35:11 -08:00
snprintf.c MSVC: vsnprintf in Visual Studio 2015 doesn't need SNPRINTF_SIZE_CORR any more 2016-03-30 11:13:01 -07:00
stat.c compat: convert modes to use portable file type values 2014-12-04 11:58:36 -08:00
strcasestr.c
strdup.c compat: move strdup(3) replacement to its own file 2016-09-07 10:41:45 -07:00
strlcpy.c
strtoimax.c
strtoumax.c
terminal.c strvec: convert more callers away from argv_array name 2020-07-28 15:02:18 -07:00
terminal.h terminal: add a new function to read a single keystroke 2020-01-15 12:06:17 -08:00
unsetenv.c Revert "compat/unsetenv.c: Fix a sparse warning" 2013-07-21 15:09:56 -07:00
win32.h
win32mmap.c mmap(win32): avoid expensive fstat() call 2016-04-22 15:01:16 -07:00
winansi.c mingw: work around incorrect standard handles 2019-11-23 11:17:01 +09:00