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Tapsets

After writing enough analysis scripts for yourself, your may become known as an expert to your colleagues, who will want to use your scripts. Systemtap makes it possible to share in a controlled manner; to build libraries of scripts that build on each other. In fact, all of the functions (pid(), etc.) used in the scripts above come from tapset scripts like that. A ``tapset'' is just a script that designed for reuse by installation into a special directory.



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