pid and execname mismatches

Mark Wielaard mjw@redhat.com
Thu Jul 22 14:50:00 GMT 2010


On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 07:29 -0700, tonyg362 wrote:
> I'm trying to collect the pids and execnames of every process when it enters
> the scheduler. The problem is that it seems as though the pid of the process
> I use for the -c option always gives me the execname of the stapio process.

This might come from the the following in runtime/staprun/mainloop.c:
#define WORKAROUND_BZ467568 1  /* PR 6964; XXX: autoconf when able */
I suspect that if you remove that line things work as expected. As the
comment says, it would be good to add some sort of autoconf for this.

Cheers,

Mark



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