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| author | blasty <blasty@local> | 2026-07-23 00:14:59 +0200 |
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| committer | blasty <blasty@local> | 2026-07-23 00:14:59 +0200 |
| commit | d259039706c25fe99096ecdf3302987a3a792ebb (patch) | |
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| parent | app: 'd' — define typed data in the listing (make_data, M3) (diff) | |
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launch: `ida-tui foo.elf` one-shot wrapper (server + locks + session)
A caveman entry point so you don't hand-craft the plumbing every time. It:
* ensures the ida-pro-mcp supervisor is up — starts spawn.sh detached
(start_new_session, tmux-free) and waits for the port if it's down;
* recovers a binary wedged by a hard-killed worker — sweeps the stale
unpacked .id0/.id1/.id2/.nam/.til next to the .i64 and retries (the packed
.i64 is never touched);
* adopts an already-open session for the same binary (idempotent), else
idb_opens it with a sane idle-TTL;
* launches the TUI attached to that session with keepalive on.
./ida-tui /path/to/binary # open a binary and drive it
./ida-tui # attach to the sole session
./ida-tui --db <id> # attach to a specific session
Pieces: idatui/launch.py (logic, reuses pane.py's server probe), a repo-root
`ida-tui` sh wrapper (resolves ~/ida-venv python, keeps idatui importable from
any cwd), and an `ida-tui` console-script in pyproject. --help works without
textual (app imported late). README documents both the one-liner and the
manual recovery. gitignore bin/ (binary targets, like targets/).
Verified live: ensure_server up-detection, open, adopt (same session id), and
lock-sweep all work against a running supervisor.
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@@ -51,6 +51,22 @@ pulls in Textual + Pygments. ## Running +The caveman way — one command does all the plumbing (starts the supervisor if +it's down, recovers a binary wedged by a crashed worker, opens/adopts the +session, launches the TUI): + +```sh +./ida-tui /path/to/binary # open a binary and drive it — that's it +./ida-tui # attach to the sole open session +./ida-tui --db <session> # attach to a specific session +``` + +It uses `~/ida-venv/bin/python` for the TUI (override with `$IDATUI_PYTHON`) and +resolves binary paths against your real cwd. The binary's directory must be +writable (idalib writes a `.i64` there). + +The manual way (if you want the pieces separate): + ```sh # 1. Start the ida-pro-mcp supervisor (opens bin/ls by default). ./spawn.sh # supervisor on 127.0.0.1:8745 @@ -61,6 +77,11 @@ python -m idatui.tui --db <session> python -m idatui.tui --open /abs/path/bin # dir must be WRITABLE (.i64) ``` +> Recovering a wedged database by hand: if a worker was hard-killed it leaves +> unpacked `foo.id0/.id1/.id2/.nam/.til` next to `foo.i64`, and the `.i64` then +> refuses to reopen. Delete those stale files (never the `.i64`) and retry — +> `ida-tui` does this automatically. + The `spawn.sh` host/port/target are overridable via `IDA_MCP_HOST`, `IDA_MCP_PORT`, `IDA_MCP_TARGET`, `IDA_MCP_MAX_WORKERS`. A systemd unit is in `systemd/`. |
