[Bug dyninst/17352] probing by pid using --runtime=dyninst not having -x or -c set

[jistone at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17352

Josh Stone <jistone at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|runtime                     |dyninst
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement

--- Comment #1 from Josh Stone <jistone at redhat dot com> ---
Right, the dyninst mode is not system-wide like the kernel -- we have to
explicitly attach to processes.  Right now we choose to simply attach to the
-x/-c process and any children we see forked after that.  I suppose we could
attempt additional attachments based on the process(PID) probes in the script.

However, I think we may have other issues internally in the way the PID is
encoded, overloading the offset field.  That works fine for
process(PID).begin/end, but we'll need a true offset for .function to work.  It
looks like the call to dynprobe_add_uprobe() is currently ignoring any PID.

(These process(PID) uprobe types are new in 2.6, so they weren't a
consideration when this stapdyn code was written.)

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