[Patch]Fix the bug of missing definition of argstr and retstr
Frank Ch. Eigler
fche@redhat.com
Fri Aug 17 03:21:00 GMT 2007
Cai Fei <caifei@cn.fujitsu.com> writes:
> [...]
> After adding definition of pid and argstr for syscall getpgid, I
> checked the tapset
> for other syscalls. The same problems of missing definition of argstr
> and retstr exist.
There is generally no need to create variables that simply carry empty
strings. The translator will do that automatically if necessary.
>
> kernel.function("sys_getegid")
> {
> name = "getegid"
> + argstr = ""
> }
The only substantial effect of this is to prevent a probe based on
this alias from using "argstr" as a *numeric* variable.
- FChE
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