Fwd: R.F.C. Should we abandon User-land probes?

Martin Hunt hunt@redhat.com
Thu Oct 20 20:14:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 15:06 -0500, James Dickens wrote:

>  yes those work fine in kernel code, since variables to access
> components of the structs/unions are allready availible for the
> systemtap code and tapsets, but that is not the case of userland,
> especially in the case of C++ classes/struct. So the user required to
> enable guru-mode.

Whatever gave you that idea?

Martin




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