Bug 2444942

Summary: Review Request: erlang-redbug - Erlang tracing debugger
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Component: Package ReviewAssignee: Benson Muite <benson_muite>
Status: ASSIGNED --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: benson_muite, package-review
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OS: Linux   
URL: https://github.com/massemanet/redbug
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Description Peter Lemenkov 2026-03-05 20:42:20 UTC 
Spec URL: https://peter.fedorapeople.org/packages/erlang-redbug.spec
SRPM URL: https://peter.fedorapeople.org/packages/erlang-redbug-2.0.10-1.fc43.src.rpm
Description: redbug is a tool to interact with the Erlang trace facility. It is intended to
be run from the erlang shell, but it can also be run from an OS shell as an
escript (see below). It will instruct the Erlang VM to generate so-called
'trace messages' when certain events (such as a particular function being
called) occur. It uses a safe subset of the tracing functionality, and exits if
it feels overloaded, e.g. if it gets flooded by trace messages. It runs in the
background, collecting trace messages, until it reaches one of its termination
criteria (number of messages/file size or elapsed time).

The trace messages are either printed (i.e. human readable) to a file or to the
screen; or written to a trc file. Using a trc file puts less stress on the
system, but there is no way to count the messages (so the 'msgs' opt is
ignored), and the files can only be read by special tools (such as 'bread').
Printing and trc files cannot be combined. By default (i.e. if the 'file' opt
is not given), messages are printed.
Fedora Account System Username: peter

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Comment 1 Fedora Review Service 2026-03-06 04:52:49 UTC 
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