4/20/05 meeting - minutes from morning session

[John Levon]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:04:56PM -0700, Chen, Brad wrote:

> - backtraces
> 	- backtrace kernel and user space works today
> 	- issue: don't want to do symbolic lookups in user space
> 		- might use dcookies; oprofile style

Please do: one of the most unfortunate  things with dtrace is that if
the process goes away, all you get is a hex backtrace. There's no really
good reason for this in Linux, since you can just grab the relevant
dcookies and decode at your leisure.

regards
john