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authorDavid Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>2009-06-16 12:22:32 -0500
committerDavid Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>2009-06-16 12:22:32 -0500
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* What's new
+- Systemwide kernel .function.return (kretprobe) maxactive defaults may
+ be overridden with the -DKRETACTIVE=nnn parameter.
+
+* What's new in version 0.9.8
+
+- Miscellaneous new tapset functions:
+ - sid() returns the session ID of the current process
+ - stringat() indexes a single character from a string.
+
+- Using %M in print formats for hex dumps can now print entire buffers,
+ instead of just small numbers.
+
- Dwarfless syscalls: The nd_syscalls tapset is now available to probe
system calls without requiring kernel debugging information. All of
the same probepoints in the normal syscalls tapset are available with