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authorPaul Buetow <paul@buetow.org>2026-06-01 23:13:11 +0300
committerPaul Buetow <paul@buetow.org>2026-06-01 23:13:11 +0300
commitbd544509846fb7e1882aa466d24aea937c2b2804 (patch)
tree5e9a31a7cc6a7256b52ce4e842d9bb72f2baed80 /docs/syscall-tracing-plan.md
parent8251307ac3187b346ed12e9a54d9bf6d7cba7e53 (diff)
fix(classify): mq_timedsend returns status, not bytes — make ret UNCLASSIFIED
mq_timedsend(2)/mq_send(3) return 0 on success or -1 on error; the payload size msg_len is an INPUT argument, never the return value. It was wrongly listed in retClassifications as WriteClassified, which made bytesFromRet attribute its 0 return as "bytes written" (the stats engine WriteClassified path). Remove it so its return stays UNCLASSIFIED, consistent with its POSIX mq sibling mq_timedreceive (which legitimately stays ReadClassified because it returns the received byte count). This is the exact same defect just fixed for SysV msgsnd (5057bd9) and mirrors the msgrcv/msgsnd asymmetry. Regenerated tracepoints/docs accordingly and updated the pre-existing classify unit test and the TestPosixMqBasic integration assertion: the mq_timedsend send no longer asserts a write byte count (now expects 0), while mq_timedreceive keeps its received-byte-count assertion. Verified: mage generate idempotent, mage build OK, internal/generate tests pass. TestPosixMqBasic skips in this sandbox (mq_open: permission denied) but compiles with the corrected assertions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Payload bytes classified by return value:
- ReadClassified: `fgetxattr`, `flistxattr`, `getdents`, `getdents64`, `getrandom`, `getxattr`, `getxattrat`, `lgetxattr`, `listxattr`, `listxattrat`, `llistxattr`, `mq_timedreceive`, `msgrcv`, `pread64`, `preadv`, `preadv2`, `process_vm_readv`, `read`, `readlink`, `readlinkat`, `readv`, `recvfrom`, `recvmsg`, `syslog`
- TransferClassified: `copy_file_range`, `sendfile64`, `splice`, `tee`, `vmsplice`
-- WriteClassified: `mq_timedsend`, `process_vm_writev`, `pwrite64`, `pwritev`, `pwritev2`, `sendmsg`, `sendto`, `write`, `writev`
+- WriteClassified: `process_vm_writev`, `pwrite64`, `pwritev`, `pwritev2`, `sendmsg`, `sendto`, `write`, `writev`
All other traced syscalls are treated as non-bytes for throughput accounting.
Memory extent is tracked separately via address-space metrics.