Access to kernel data structures

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Fri Apr 8 09:41:00 GMT 2005


Hi -


brad.chen wrote:
> The restriction of only being able to look at strings
> and integers seems a bit severe. This seems a lot less
> powerful than DTrace, which appears to allow you to
> work with any kernel data (although you can't iterate).
> [...]

The intent is that any reasonable target data types may be processed
within the target expression syntax du jour, but the final result
would be cast to a string or number value for storage within systemtap
variables.  I believe that matches dtrace.


- FChE



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