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authorDave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>2008-08-29 16:10:01 -0400
committerDave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>2008-08-29 16:10:01 -0400
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* What's new
+- Global variables which are written to but never read are now
+ automatically displayed when the session does a shutdown. For example:
+
+ global running_tasks
+ probe timer.profile {running_tasks[pid(),tid()] = execname()}
+ probe timer.ms(8000) {exit()}
+
- A formatted string representation of the variables, parameters, or local
variables at a probe point is now supported via the special $$vars,
$$parms, and $$locals context variables, which expand to a string