When searching for script files, look for both the new and old file
extensions. If a file with ".zeek" can't be found, then search for
a file with ".bro" as a fallback.
It was getting too bloated and allocated memory in ways that were
difficult to understand how to manage. Separated out primarily in to
new find_file() and open_file()/open_package() functions.
Also renamed other util functions for path-related things.
- 'when' statements were problematic when used in a function/event/hook
that had local variables with an assigned function value. This was
because 'when' blocks operate on a clone of the frame and the cloning
process serializes locals and the serialization of functions had an
infinite cycle in it (ID -> BroFunc -> ID -> BroFunc ...). The ID
was only used for the function name and type information, so
refactoring Func and subclasses to depend on those two things instead
fixes the issue.
- 'return when' blocks, specifically, didn't work whenever execution
of the containing function's body does another function call before
reaching the 'return when' block, because of an assertion. This was
was due to logic in CallExpr::Eval always clearing the CallExpr
associated with the Frame after doing the call, instead of restoring
any previous CallExpr, which the code in Trigger::Eval expected to
have available.
- An assert could be reached when the condition of a 'when' statement
depended on checking the value of global state variables. The assert
in Trigger::QueueTrigger that checks that the Trigger isn't disabled
would get hit because Trigger::Eval/Timeout disable themselves after
running, but don't unregister themselves from the NotifierRegistry,
which keeps calling QueueTrigger for every state access of the global.
Stack trace context descriptions are no longer limited to 1024 chars
and better error messages are relayed when the arguments to print
commands fail to parse (e.g. an "unknown identifier" was given).
* origin/topic/robin/reporting:
Syslog BiF now goes through the reporter as well.
Avoiding infinite loops when an error message handlers triggers errors itself.
Renaming the Logger to Reporter.
Overhauling the internal reporting of messages to the user.
Updating a bunch of tests/baselines as well.
Conflicts:
aux/broccoli
policy.old/alarm.bro
policy/all.bro
policy/bro.init
policy/frameworks/notice/weird.bro
policy/notice.bro
src/SSL-binpac.cc
src/bro.bif
src/main.cc
Added an arg to the search_for_files() util function that can return
the subpath of BROPATH's policy/ dir in which the loaded file is found.
This subpath is then used in both the the reST file's document title
(so that script's named e.g. "base.bro" actually have some context) and
in figuring out how to interlink with other generated docs of other
scripts that are found in @load directives.
I still need to overhaul things so the loading of "packages" is
documented in a meaningful way and that the CMake targets are able
to generate indexes for packages.
The Logger class is now in charge of reporting all errors, warnings,
informational messages, weirds, and syslogs. All other components
route their messages through the global bro_logger singleton.
The Logger class comes with these reporting methods:
void Message(const char* fmt, ...);
void Warning(const char* fmt, ...);
void Error(const char* fmt, ...);
void FatalError(const char* fmt, ...); // Terminate Bro.
void Weird(const char* name);
[ .. some more Weird() variants ... ]
void Syslog(const char* fmt, ...);
void InternalWarning(const char* fmt, ...);
void InternalError(const char* fmt, ...); // Terminates Bro.
See Logger.h for more information on these.
Generally, the reporting now works as follows:
- All non-fatal message are reported in one of two ways:
(1) At startup (i.e., before we start processing packets),
they are logged to stderr.
(2) During processing, they turn into events:
event log_message%(msg: string, location: string%);
event log_warning%(msg: string, location: string%);
event log_error%(msg: string, location: string%);
The script level can then handle them as desired.
If we don't have an event handler, we fall back to
reporting on stderr.
- All fatal errors are logged to stderr and Bro terminates
immediately.
- Syslog(msg) directly syslogs, but doesn't do anything else.
The three main types of messages can also be generated on the
scripting layer via new Log::* bifs:
Log::error(msg: string);
Log::warning(msg: string);
Log::message(msg: string);
These pass through the bro_logger as well and thus are handled in the
same way. Their output includes location information.
More changes:
- Removed the alarm statement and the alarm_hook event.
- Adapted lots of locations to use the bro_logger, including some
of the messages that were previously either just written to
stdout, or even funneled through the alarm mechanism.
- No distinction anymore between Error() and RunTime(). There's
now only one class of errors; the line was quite blurred already
anyway.
- util.h: all the error()/warn()/message()/run_time()/pinpoint()
functions are gone. Use the bro_logger instead now.
- Script errors are formatted a bit differently due to the
changes. What I've seen so far looks ok to me, but let me know
if there's something odd.
Notes:
- The default handlers for the new log_* events are just dummy
implementations for now since we need to integrate all this into
the new scripts anyway.
- I'm not too happy with the names of the Logger class and its
instance bro_logger. We now have a LogMgr as well, which makes
this all a bit confusing. But I didn't have a good idea for
better names so I stuck with them for now.
Perhaps we should merge Logger and LogMgr?
With a directory "foo" somewhere in BROPATH, "@load foo" now checks if
there's a file "foo/__load__.bro". If so, it reads that file in. (If
not, Bro reports the same error as before, complaining that it can't
read a directory).
