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* What's new
+- 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
+ mode, staprun is detached from console, and stap itself shows staprun's
+ pid and exits.
+ Specifying the max size and the max number of log files are also available
+ by passing -S option. This option has one or two arguments seperated by
+ a comma. The first argument is the max size of a log file in MB. If the
+ size of a log file exceeds it, stap switches to the next log file
+ automatically. The second is how many files are kept on the disk. If the
+ number of log files exceeds it, the oldest log file is removed
+ automatically. The second argument can be omitted.
+
+ For example, this will record output on log files each of them is smaller
+ than 1024MB and keep last 3 logs, in background.
+ % stap -F -o /tmp/staplog -S 1024,3 script.stp
+
- In guru mode (-g), the kernel probing blacklist is disabled, leaving
only a subset - the kernel's own internal kprobe blacklist - to attempt
to filter out areas unsafe to probe. The differences may be enough to