Bug 11059 - No dtrace script documentation
Summary: No dtrace script documentation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: systemtap
Classification: Unclassified
Component: documentation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Stan Cox
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Reported: 2009-12-06 20:54 UTC by Mark Wielaard
Modified: 2010-03-23 21:16 UTC (History)
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Description Mark Wielaard 2009-12-06 20:54:10 UTC 
Although a dtrace python compatibility script is provided, there is no
documentation on it. This really would be nice when trying to see why it doesn't
work with certain arguments (since there currently is no easy way to see what
which flag should do).
Comment 1 Mark Wielaard 2009-12-07 06:00:45 UTC 
It is actually not that bad, there is dtrace --help, which gives:

Usage /usr/local/bin/dtrace [--help] [-h | -G] -s File.d [-o File]
Where -h builds a systemtap header file from the .d file
      -o specifies an explicit output file name,
         The default for -G is file.o and -h is file.h
      -s specifies the name of the .d input file
      -G builds a stub file.o from file.d,
         which is required by some packages that use dtrace.

Still would be nice to have an actual man page though.
Comment 2 Stan Cox 2010-01-20 16:39:40 UTC 
Add dtrace.1 man page.
commit: 4e6d866ff6