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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -29,8 +29,11 @@ - 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, - rather than via a /bin/sh -c subshell. + kernel.* or other probe types.) The CMD string is normally run directly, + rather than via a /bin/sh -c subshell, since then utrace/uprobe probes + receive a fairly "clean" event stream. If metacharacters like + redirection operators were present in CMD, then "sh -c CMD" is still + used, and utrace/uprobe probes will receive events from the shell. % stap -e 'probe process.syscall, process.end { printf("%s %d %s\n", execname(), pid(), pp())}'\ |