Re: new feature and discussion: filtering on pids

[Martin Hunt <hunt at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 13:36 -0500, James Dickens wrote:

> > 
> > probe kernel.function("sys_open") {
> >         if (target() == pid())
> >                 log (execname()." opens ".user_string($filename))
> > }
> > 
> how do you deal with a multithread app that doesn't use CLONE_PID?
> wouldn't the test fail since each thread has a seperate pid?

They have the same parent so change it to read
if (target() == ppid()) or maybe it should be
if (target() == pid() || target() == ppid())

This could also be done automatically.

Martin