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Re: Systemtap Example showing user-space probing of applicatoins


William Cohen wrote:
> There are some applications such as Java-1.6.0-openjdk and postgresql that have
> user-space markers enabled in Fedora. It is very nice to have the user-space
> markers in these applications. However, these applications are a bit complicated
> and make it a more difficult to figure out how to add markers to a new
> application. In an effort to make it easier to see how to make use of probes in
> the application code I have been working on a very trivial example, heapsort.
> The code appears to work at this point and things are packaged as a source rpm.
> More writeup is needed to describe how this works in the packages README.
> 
> I have made the srpm available at:
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/heapsort-0.1-1.fc10.src.rpm
> 
> Feedback on the current srpm would be appreciated. I plan to present this
> material at Toronto FudCon December 5-7.
> 
> -Will

Hi All,

Some expansion on the README to describe the changes made to produce the
user-space probes. The newer srpm is now available at:

http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/heapsort-0.2-1.fc10.src.rpm

-Will


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