dtrace discuss - Oct 2008 - New Solaris 10 DTrace Guide -- or is it??

I recently noticed that the Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide has a new rev,
dated Sept 2008.  I was so excited until I noticed that new features
like the "str..." functions, ufunc() etc, ucaller etc, are not in
there.

 

Also, the example, used to describe how the args[] array works, is still
a system call.

 

I know this is an OpenSolaris forum, not a Solaris 10 forum, but I was
hoping someone that monitors this list would know why there is a new
manual that doesn''t have new features and corrections?

 

Thanks,

Chip

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Hey Chip,

The DTrace documentation on docs.sun.com should be following the online wiki
documentation. The wiki is the primary source of documentation:

  http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/Documentation

If you want to help make the documentation better, a good place to start
would be the list of bugs:

  http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/Documentation+Bugs

Take a look at Jon''s original announcement for the proper procedures
for
submitting wiki modification proposals:

  http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=180433&

Adam

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:38:14PM -0400, Chip Bennett
wrote:
> I recently noticed that the Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide has a new rev,
> dated Sept 2008.  I was so excited until I noticed that new features
> like the "str..." functions, ufunc() etc, ucaller etc, are not in
there.
> 
>  
> 
> Also, the example, used to describe how the args[] array works, is still
> a system call.
> 
>  
> 
> I know this is an OpenSolaris forum, not a Solaris 10 forum, but I was
> hoping someone that monitors this list would know why there is a new
> manual that doesn''t have new features and corrections?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chip
> 
> _______________________________________________
> dtrace-discuss mailing list
> dtrace-discuss at opensolaris.org

-- 
Adam Leventhal, Fishworks                     http://blogs.sun.com/ahl

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 06:01:26PM -0700, Adam Leventhal
wrote:
> Hey Chip,
> 
> The DTrace documentation on docs.sun.com should be following the online
wiki
> documentation. The wiki is the primary source of documentation:
> 
>   http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/Documentation
Is there any convenient way to convert wiki source into some printable
format (pdf?) ?

Regards
Przemyslaw Bak (przemol)
--
http://przemol.blogspot.com/





















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>> The DTrace documentation on docs.sun.com should be following the online
wiki
>> documentation. The wiki is the primary source of documentation:
>>
>>   http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/Documentation
>
> Is there any convenient way to convert wiki source into some printable
> format (pdf?) ?
It''s all a bit fuzzy for me now but I believe that you can get
plug-ins for wikis that do this (for the wiki we currently use
anyway) but I''m told the output is sometimes less than optimal.

Sun''s documentation has a long toolchain that has to handle
complexities such as language translation. I''m told that just
converting directly to pdf from wiki isn''t really an option for
us at the minute.

Jon.