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Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 08:10:39AM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 12:05:36PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Also, it would be really great if you could write probes in regular C,
> > > some pseudo C language just messes up my mind.
> > 
> > You can write probes in plain C, in fact I do this all the time.  what's
> > missing is a nice and easy to use channel to get the traces to userspace
> > and interpret them, and helper for poking at kernel data structures.
> 
> Perhaps something like like this:

But that means I need to pull in all the systemtap crap, which is exatly
what I want to avoid.
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