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Re: stpd and translator
- From: Martin Hunt <hunt at redhat dot com>
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com" <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:48:29 -0700
- Subject: Re: stpd and translator
- Organization: Red Hat Inc.
- References: <1120756838.4303.2.camel@tiger> <20050707172830.GE22811@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 13:28 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Certainly. I envision pulling in those parts of stpd that actually
> read the relayfs files (and if they stick around, the netlink sockets)
> into src/buildrun.cxx. This module, a part of the translator/driver
> program, would supervise all the build/insmod/communication/rmmod
> needs of the probes.
>
> As to *how* this could work - at the first stab you can imagine it *as
> if* current stpd ran as a thread within the driver program. I
> envision simplifying it further than that, into a single-threaded
> relayfs poller, data-stream multiplexer, and general startup/shutdown
> supervisor.
What do you see as the advantages of doing it this way vs having a
separate program?
Martin