Modify stap-probe.h to identify SystemTap probes

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Sat May 5 06:53:00 GMT 2012


On Sat, 05 May 2012 08:41:49 +0200, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> On Saturday, May 05 2012, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > If the current probe.h interface is insufficient then it should be extended.
> 
> I agree, but that's not the case.  `probe.h' is sufficient, but it is
> not its responsibility to tell if a probe foo is a SystemTap probe.

Why cannot probe XYZ serve the task a SystemTap probe does?  The name
"SystemTap" makes the probe somehow unique no other probe kind can be placed
at the same address providing the same information?


Regards,
Jan



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