[Pkg-anonymity-tools] Bug#799298: torsocks: Unsupported syscall number 186/202 with iceweasel and video

[intrigeri]

Control: retitle -1 Does not support syscalls 186 and 202
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tag -1 + upstream
Control forwarded -1 dgoulet at ev0ke.net

Hi Petter,

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote (17 Sep 2015 16:30:13 GMT) :
> When starting 'torsocks iceweasel' [...]

FYI https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ documents
why this generally gives the user a mistaken feeling of safety.

Hence downgrading severity a bit, since IMO we should not actively
support this specific usecase.

> [sep. 17 18:25:46] WARNING torsocks[26153]: [syscall] Unsupported
> syscall number 202. Denying the call (in tsocks_syscall() at
> syscall.c:165))

> [sep. 17 18:26:18] WARNING torsocks[26265]: [syscall] Unsupported
> syscall number 186. Denying the call (in tsocks_syscall() at
> syscall.c:165))

> I guess there is something not implemented in torsocks leading
> to these.

> Can the missing parts be added to get this working.

Let's ask the upstream author (Cc'd): David, any thoughts about this?

Cheers,
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intrigeri