> Hey,
>
> Do you guys think that is a good idea to have a manual page for each
provider wi
> th a complete description of what probes are offered ? Found some already
under
> 7D category:
>
> dtrace dtrace (7d) - DTrace dynamic tracing facility
> fasttrap fasttrap (7d) - DTrace user instruction tracing provider
> fbt fbt (7d) - DTrace function boundary tracing provider
> lockstat lockstat (7d) - DTrace kernel lock instrumentation
provider
> profile profile (7d) - DTrace profile interrupt provider
> sdt sdt (7d) - DTrace statically defined tracing
provider
> systrace systrace (7d) - DTrace system call tracing provider
>
> Can we have as well the probes available by each provder defined in each
manual
> page ?
> Is there a RFE already opened ?
Certainly offering more documentation is always a good idea, but there is a
tools/process issue that is blocking this particular request. Namely, at
the time we wrote the Dynamic Tracing Guide and at present there is still no
way to share source files between the SGML reference manual and the man page
source. In other words, we''d want to have SGML fragments describing
probes
and then be able to include them into both the man page and refman such that
there is no additional documentation maintenance burden and we only have one
description of each probe to maintain. The doc group and the OpenSolaris
team are working on a variety of improvements to the docs process; when the
above issue is resolved we can implement this request.
-Mike
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Mike Shapiro, Solaris Kernel Development. blogs.sun.com/mws/