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authorJosh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>2009-03-20 17:12:15 -0700
committerJosh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>2009-03-20 17:12:15 -0700
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Document @cast module search paths
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* What's new
+- Typecasting with @cast now supports modules search paths, which is
+ useful in case there are multiple places where the type definition
+ may be found. For example:
+ @cast(sdev, "scsi_device", "kernel:scsi_mod")->sdev_state
+
- On-file flight recorder is supported. It allows stap to record huge
trace log on the disk and to run in background.
Passing -F option with -o option runs stap in background mode. In this