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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2008-09-09 16:02:56 -0400
committerMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2008-09-09 16:02:56 -0400
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Add $argN context variables on per-process-syscall probes
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* What's new
+- Additional context variables are available on user-space syscall probes.
+ - $argN ($arg1, $arg2, ... $arg6) in process(PATH_OR_PID).syscall
+ gives you the argument of the system call.
+
- Target process mode (stap -c CMD or -x PID) now implicitly restricts all
"process.*" probes to the given child process. (It does not affect
kernel.* or other probe types.) The CMD string is now executed directly,