dtrace discuss - Nov 2005 - PID Provider -- multipe pids/execnames

Howdy,

I sent an e-mail to Sean McGrath last week to ask if it was possible to 
specify multiple pids/execnames when using the pid provider. Sean sent
me an awesome link (thanks Sean!!!) to a thread on this topic, but the 
solution is less than ideal. Would it be possible to add multiple 
pids/execname support to the pid provider (I checked the bug database and
was unable to locate an RFE for multiple pid/execname support)? I would 
love to  be able to do something similar to the following:

pid*httpd*::ap*: { ... }

Thanks for any insight/suggestions,
- Ryan
--
UNIX Administrator
http://daemons.net/~matty

Hi Ryan,

It''s something we''re currently working towards, but
there''s no way to do it
currently. For your specific problem, you''ll be able to do something
like
this:

  dtrace -n ''pid$target::ap*:'' -p `pgrep httpd -d,`

That''s a bit of a guess; the details might be slightly different once
we
have it completely implemented.

Adam

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:59:09PM -0500, Matty wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I sent an e-mail to Sean McGrath last week to ask if it was possible to 
> specify multiple pids/execnames when using the pid provider. Sean sent
> me an awesome link (thanks Sean!!!) to a thread on this topic, but the 
> solution is less than ideal. Would it be possible to add multiple 
> pids/execname support to the pid provider (I checked the bug database and
> was unable to locate an RFE for multiple pid/execname support)? I would 
> love to  be able to do something similar to the following:
> 
> pid*httpd*::ap*: { ... }
> 
> Thanks for any insight/suggestions,
> - Ryan
> --
> UNIX Administrator
> http://daemons.net/~matty
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