Output Redesign in SystemTap Runtime

[Martin Hunt]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 14:09 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:58:30AM -0700, Chen, Brad wrote:
> > I'm not following all of this discussion, but it
> > appears to me that some people would really want
> > tagged data, and some people would not [...]
> 
> I would put the issue this way.  If we have tags, then let's define
> what they represent; exactly what layers of the software would process
> them and how; how they are passed through other lower layers.  The
> first proposal did not lay such groundwork.

It was more of a summary of what I was thinking of doing. It was not a
detailed design and I really didn't think there would be interest enough
to justify a huge document anyway.

I'll post a more detailed description.

Martin