[tbb-bugs] #17325 [Quality Assurance and Testing]: In Tor Browser test suite, use strace to monitor files and network activity during tests

Mon Oct 12 10:58:47 UTC 2015

#17325: In Tor Browser test suite, use strace to monitor files and network activity
during tests
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 Reporter:  boklm                          |          Owner:  boklm
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 We are currently using a patched version of mbox
 (http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/mbox/) to do that, but it is quite buggy and
 requires a custom build of mbox. It might be easier to run the browser
 with strace and parse the logs to find the open and connect system calls.

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