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@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ archive the file. .PP In pass 5, the translator invokes the systemtap auxiliary program -.I stpd +.I staprun program for the given kernel object. This program arranges to load the module then communicates with it, copying trace data from the kernel into temporary files, until the user sends an interrupt signal. @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ Any run-time error encountered by the probe handlers, such as running out of memory, division by zero, exceeding nesting or runtime limits, results in a soft error indication. Soft errors in excess of MAXERRORS block of all subsequent probes, and terminate the session. -Finally, stpd unloads the module, and cleans up. +Finally, staprun unloads the module, and cleans up. .SH EXAMPLES See the @@ -728,11 +728,11 @@ structures and potentially private user information. It acquires root privileges to actually run the kernel objects it builds using the .IR sudo command applied to the -.IR stpd +.IR staprun program. The latter is a part of the Systemtap package, dedicated to module loading and unloading (but only in the white zone), and kernel-to-user data transfer. Since -.IR stpd +.IR staprun does not perform any additional security checks on the kernel objects it is given, it would be unwise for a system administrator to give even targeted @@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ Maximum number of skipped reentrant probes before an exit is triggered. .PP In case something goes wrong with -.IR stap " or " stpd +.IR stap " or " staprun after a probe has already started running, one may safely kill both user processes, and remove the active probe kernel module with .IR rmmod . @@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ The location of kernel debugging information when packaged into the .IR kernel\-debuginfo RPM. .TP -/usr/libexec/systemtap/stpd +/usr/bin/staprun The auxiliary program supervising module loading, interaction, and unloading. @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ The .IR stap translator was written by Frank Ch. Eigler and Graydon Hoare. The kernel-side runtime library and the user-level -.IR stpd +.IR staprun daemon was written by Martin Hunt and Tom Zanussi. Contact them using the public mailing list: .nh |