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authorDave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>2008-08-29 16:17:42 -0400
committerDave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>2008-08-29 16:17:42 -0400
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* What's new
+- Prototype systemtap client and compile server are now available.
+ These allow you to compile a systemtap module on a host other than
+ the one which it will be run, providing the client and server
+ are compatible. Other than using a server for passes 1 through
+ 4, the client behaves like the 'stap' front end itself. This
+ means, among other things, that the client will automatically
+ load the resulting module on the local host unless -p[1234]
+ was specified. See stap-server(8) for more details.
+
- Global variables which are written to but never read are now
automatically displayed when the session does a shutdown. For example: