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A user has asked us to find out who is changing one of their files and how it is being changed. I came up with the script below: #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s #pragma D option quiet BEGIN { printf("\n Timestamp gid uid pid ppid execname function current directory file name\n\n"); } syscall::open:entry,

Dtracing gethostbyname I''m trying to read the h_alias array and all the entries it points to however every time I copyin an entry pointed to by the first entry in teh h_alias array the other entries in the array get corrupted. So I have ended up with this script: #!/usr/bin/dtrace -CZs #include <netdb.h> pid$target::gethostbyname_r:return { self->r = (struct hostent

(PS: another idea that comes along the same lines as a dumper function and IMO would be helpful is an ''introspect'' function. Given an argument: introspect(probefunc) it returns back the expected arguments for the probe func, their datastructures, as well as the syntax on how to dereference them. If an intelligent copyinstr comes out, this would be easy to write, and would

[1] Predicates in one-liners I would like to list the probe modules in my executable and then dynamically create a dscript to trace execution of those modules alone (by excluding the 3rd party and system libraries). I tried the below script without success. The conditional given in the predicate is not taking effect. Why is this so ? $ dtrace -ln ''pid$target:::

Hy! I receive an nxge driver messages on console: Aug 18 11:08:42 [hostname] nxge: NOTICE: nxge_ipp_eccue_valid_check: rd_ptr = XXX wr_ptr = YYY I find the bug description/correction at sun web page, and i know i can ignore it. I thinking about how can i delete from console only these messages (here is my first version, what is not (so) elegant): #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -qs #pragma D option

I''ve been trying to get access to a userland string that''s behind a second level pointer using DTrace, but I can''t seem to get it to work. I started with the example on the Team DTrace Tips and Tricks slides: trace(copyinstr(*(uintptr_t *)copyin(arg0, curpsinfo->pr_dmodel == PR_MODEL_ILP32 ? 4 : 8))); And when I couldn''t get it to work, I started

everyone, Just out of curiosity, I did a dtrace -n ''syscall:::entry { @num[execname, probefunc] = count(); }'' and looked at the entries produced by ''rm''. I see everything that rm did, *except* the unlinkat - which is unfortunate because I want to trace which processes have deleted which files. So - does dtrace contain unlinkat as a probe for a system call?

Hi, I ran a d-program with syscall::open:entry probe but got the following error messages sometimes: dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 1 (ID 14: syscall::open:entry): invalid address (0xff34e000) in predicate at DIF offset 76 dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 6 (ID 14: syscall::open:entry): invalid address (0xff34e000) in predicate at DIF offset 28 I don''t know how to interpret these

Hello Srikant - A quantization distributes the results of your aggregation into ranges ordered by a power-of-two. Presumably what you''d do in your script is capture the inclusive elapsed time of each function call in your library, then use this quantization to see how tightly-banded the times are. Perhaps there''s some blocking I/O in some of your calls, for example, in which

Dear dtrace Experts, I have seen some dtrace utilities like opensnoop and execsnoop etc. My interest is to write a simple script that can snoop the files which uses the 3 syscalls like open,create,unlink. I have gone through dtrace oneliners that can do the same : dtrace -n ''syscall::open*:entry { printf("%s %s",execname,copyinstr(arg0));}'' dtrace -n

Hi, Yufei: Thanks for your kind action. Let me centralize all the harm-hearted guys and involved alias in one email. Below is the answer of your question (Can you reply with more details on what failed? Does websphere use an IBM or Sun developed SDK? ) 1. Seems IBM bundled JDK can not detect agent options, like below: If use Sun JDK 1.5, no problem: /usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/java

Hi, I am kind of new to DTrace , I have written a script to time function calls in our application library , Wanted to know how to interpret the output from quantize of the elapsed time in each function call , here is a sample Here is the entry and return function for the library that is being traced pid$1:libswduar::entry { duarEntry[probefunc] = timestamp;

We are using following dtrace script to analyze an application. However we see different number of lwp_yield and yield calls reported depending on whether we trace mutex_lock or mutex_unlock or not. The number reported when we are not tracing mutex_lock or mutex_unlock is higher. What could be going on here and which one is the correct number. This is on S10 U2. Thanks, Rao.

Hi, I have a situation where a DTrace script is printing out extra characters, despite the copyin() call giving a specific length. Can anyone think of why this might be? It''s fine the first time all of the probes fire, but on a second run of my generating operations, I get junk in there. For example: set setop length 5, FOUND KEY, STORED set setop length 5, FOUND KEY, STORED get

i am doing reads and writes to /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s4 using dtrace to see how much time it took for ssdread and ssdwrite. It shows very small number 4 or 5. #pragma D option flowindent syscall::pread:entry { self->trace = 1; self->size = arg2; } syscall::pwrite:entry { self->trace = 1; self->size = arg2; } fbt:ssd:ssdread:entry /self->trace/ { self->start = timestamp;

I''d like to be able to dynamically read external configuration files within a dtrace script. I know dtrace allows inclusion of C header files but only at the preprocessing stage. What we need to do is dynamically enable/disable probes based on current application settings. I''d rather not have a bunch of independant scripts running and being started and killed whenever the

hi, I am trying to find out the avg cpu time spent in each of my user methods (exclusive of other methods invoked by a method). Hence the following snippet failed miserably: ----------------------- pid$target:a.out::entry { time[probefunc] = timestamp;} pid$target:a.out::return { @spent[probefunc] = avg(timestamp - time[probefunc]);} END { printa(@spent);}

Strange problem on a desktop, 64 bit, SXDE3. ] ./jpg1.d dtrace: failed to compile script ./jpg1.d: "/usr/lib/dtrace/iscsi.d", line 94: syntax error near "uiscsiproto_t" Doesn''t matter what script. Even classic oneliners such as: ] dtrace -n ''syscall::open*:entry { printf("%s % s",execname,copyinstr(arg0)); }'' bomb in this way... dtrace:

I have just started my first ''serious'' dtrace script and can use some advice. I want to have a probe triggered when close() occurs after a succesfull write of /etc/hosts ( I want to regenerate the nameserver zone files from /etc/hosts after it has changed) At the moment I have the following code: syscall::open*:entry, syscall::creat*:entry { self->file=arg0;

I have a clause that look like this: syscall::write:entry /execname == "ntpd" && self->recspec/ { speculate(self->recspec); printf(" fd=%d buf=%d\n%s",arg0,arg2, stringof(copyin(arg1,arg2-1))); } The ntpd program always write a \n trminated string in this context, so I used the "arg2-1" to drop the \n. This works