Re: The demise of utracer.

2008-06-30 Thread Chris Moller
So now we have four possibles: extending ptrace, a new ptrace-replacement syscall, a systemtap-based thing, and, now, ntrace. Things are diverging rather than converging. A couple of comments concerning the /proc entry fd method utracer uses and than some people have expressed a preference

Re: The demise of utracer.

2008-06-30 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Chris Moller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] and than some people have expressed a preference for: The first is that it's clumsy. When the utracer module loads, it creates a /proc pseudo-directory /proc/utrace and then a pseudo-file /proc/utrace/control. [...] FWIW, it'd make more sense

Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace

2008-06-30 Thread Jim Keniston
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 13:12 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: Hi - On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:29:13PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: [...] This might be getting a little offtopic for the kernel summit discuss list, but let's start anyway, we can move this to a better suited list,