[Bug translator/5898] adapt stap -c for user probes

[jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com]

------- Additional Comments From jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com  2008-03-11 17:54 -------
(In reply to comment #5)
...
> > > This will give you the capability to attach to existing or new instances of
> > > /bin/program_of_interest system-wide.  I'm attempting to do this just with
> utrace.
> > 
> > I'll be glad to see this.  I could never figure out how to do such a thing with
> > utrace, without a specific ancestor process to start with.
> 
> You attach your utrace engine to all processes (in theory at least - I haven't
> got anything working yet).  I'm basing my work on the utrace crash-suspend
> example.  Look at the exit_crash_suspend() function to see basically what I'll
> be doing.

Roland's utrace TODO list contains the following:
* Global tracing
** Allow a type of engine attached to no particular thread.
Perhaps a more efficient "exec watcher" could be built from that.  Or maybe this
would be an "extension event."

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