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From: "jistone at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: [Bug tapsets/10466] stap -L misrepresents variables available to multi-probe aliases
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091029232956.28634.qmail@sourceware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090731010425.10466.jistone@redhat.com>


------- Additional Comments From jistone at redhat dot com  2009-10-29 23:29 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=4336)
 --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=4336&action=view)
> patch
> 
> It's difficult to discriminate between multi probes like signal.* and one name
> with several expanded probe alias like signal.send. Moreover the variable list
> is in string stream, to make intersection is a little arduous.

It doesn't have to stay as a string stream though.  The probes could instead
keep a set<string> of "name:type", to be reconciled at the higher level.

> Maybe [listing expansions separately] can be a good choice.

I don't think it's right to make the user figure out the common variables...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-29 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31  1:04 [Bug tapsets/10466] New: " jistone at redhat dot com
2009-10-29  8:53 ` [Bug tapsets/10466] " wenji dot huang at oracle dot com
2009-10-29 23:30 ` jistone at redhat dot com [this message]
2009-11-03  5:37 ` wenji dot huang at oracle dot com
2009-11-03 19:42 ` jistone at redhat dot com
2009-11-04  3:09 ` wenji dot huang at oracle dot com
2009-11-04 19:21 ` jistone at redhat dot com

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