On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:42:11PM +0200, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > Ah, but I am... that was the way for my app to tell dtrace it wants the > latest stats... the question was how to get the answer back since I can't > copyout() the aggregation's value. > > DTrace isn't "controlling" the process, though, at least not by the > pid-grabbing-proc-locking-debugger-excluding definition. Is it controlling > a process that requires cleanup or use of the pid provider? If it's only > the latter, what happens if the dtrace consumer and the process being > traced are the same? A not-clean process exit would take both the consumer > and the process with, so unless there's stuff to clean up in the kernel...
Why not make your application link against libdtrace? Why all the additional work? Cheers, - jonathan _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org
