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Re: marking tapset files

Hi -

varap wrote:

> [...]  Any resolution on this.

One minor tweak already done is the inclusion of a README file in
/usr/share/systemtap/tapset which says "don't run these!" (with more
words).

> I had to deal with two users in the last week who ran to this very
> problem of directly executing tapsets as scripts.  My proposal would
> be let us change the extension of tapsets as .tap and scripts to
> remain as .stp

Do you believe that this measure, by itself, would have been enough to
keep your users from running them directly?

> Next step we could enhance translator to give better error messages.

Let's open a bug report for that.

- FChE

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