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how to avoid a lengthy man page of stapprobes(5)?
- From: "Gui,Jian" <guij at cn dot ibm dot com>
- To: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:52:18 +0800
- Subject: how to avoid a lengthy man page of stapprobes(5)?
Hi,
We are documenting NFS and RPC tapsets into stapprobes(5) man page.
But there are more than 60 probe points and each may have 3-5
arguments. If we document them in the same way(names, introductions,
arguments, argument descriptions) as we did for other tapsets, it will
make the stapprobe man page too long. And finally the user may find it
difficult to find something there.
So one way is to list probe point names and a short description in the
manual page and guide the user to read the comments in the source for
more details, i.e, the arguments and the description for each
arguments if he wants to. Another way is that we need some better
rearrangement of the stapprobe man page's layout to make it easier to
find the desired probe point among a long list.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
-Guijian