Re: updated bootprobe

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:03:52AM -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote:
> Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Dan Berrange's bootprobe script provides a nice example of systemtap use
> >that Dan has kindly agreed can be used in examples, training materials 
> >etc.
> >
> >I've made a slightly modified version to add a GPL header (with Dan's
> >permission!) and update the probepoints to use the new tapsets.
> >
> >If anyone has any comments/corrections for this version, I'd be very
> >happy to receive them.
> >
> >The original, along with the perl post-processing scripts are still
> >available here:
> >
> >http://people.redhat.com/berrange/systemtap/bootprobe/
> >
> 
> This looks like a systemcall and fork/exec trace.  Wouldn't it make 
> sense to use the tracing facility already available in SystemTap and 
> porting the Perl post-processing script to use that instead of rolling 
> your own trace format?  I would love to have post-processing scripts 
> that do the same thing for the SystemTap trace facility.
> 
> Please take a look at "man lket"

Yes, I wrote this initial script quite a while ago now before the lket
stuff existed in systemtap. It would certainly make sense to leverage
this now that it exists & update the post-processing tools accordingly

Regards,
Dan.
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