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[Bug translator/10822] procfs file created too late
- From: "dsmith at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 22 Oct 2009 13:12:10 -0000
- Subject: [Bug translator/10822] procfs file created too late
- References: <20091021211006.10822.dsmith@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
------- Additional Comments From dsmith at redhat dot com 2009-10-22 13:12 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> While we are in our initialization phase, any probes that fire will quietly skip
> their handlers. We have a guarantee that begin probes will fire before any
> others, so we can't run a procfs handler before then. If you changed the
> initialization order, then you might get your procfs file created sooner, but
> reads/writes to it might be ignored.
I don't want to run any procfs probes, I just want to setup the procfs file. If
a procfs read/write happened before systemtap got fully initialized, it should
get skipped (just as with any other probe type).
Think of creating the procfs file as no different than registering a kprobe.
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