Author: Alan Date: To: tails-dev Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] What do we miss to replace Vidalia [was: Getting
rid of Vidalia]
Hi!
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:29:37 +0100
intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote: > sajolida wrote (18 Feb 2015 11:36:27 GMT) :
> > I don't get that last sentence... Could you explain a bit more it maybe?
> > Are you saying that starting Tor Monitor "automatically" or not makes a
> > difference on the type of access (read-only or read-write) that we need
> > to its control port?
>
> If I spotted the misunderstanding correctly (see the other email I've
> just sent), and if I guess correctly, it could be that: when simply
> reading from the control port, Tor Monitor gets notifications about
> whatever streams and circuits Tor creates etc. But if Tor Monitor is
> started after Tor has already opened streams and circuits, then it
> needs to send a GETINFO (or whatever) command to get the list of
> already existing circuits and streams.
>
> Alan, did I guess it right?
> Exactly!
