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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''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

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

hi fnds, i want to print the filenames on which the stat system call is acting when a stat system call is invoked. can anyone can help me this regard. Thanks jeevan

Hi Bryan, > Does that sit well with everyone? Seems fine to me. Just revisiting one of Dragan''s points, though (sorry if I missed the answer) - is there a reason for making this global (via a #pragma) rather than, say, simply providing two functions which print in the different orders? e.g. printa() for sort by sample, printak() for sort by key. My reason for wanting to do both in

Howdy, Is there a method to get the number of elements in an aggregation? Are the results stored in an aggregation guaranteed to be in any type of order? Thanks for any insight, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://daemons.net/~matty

Hi All, One of the customer is seeing the following error messages. He is using a S10U1 system with all latest patches. Dtrace script is attached. I am not seeing these error messages on S10U2 system. What could be the problem? Thanks, Gangadhar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rroberto at njengsunu60-2:~$ dtrace -AFs /lib/svc/share/kcfd.d dtrace:

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,

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;

While using DTrace to track down a problem recently, we came across an unexpected restriction: the compiler will not permit different speculations to be committed in the same instance of a probe identifier. For instance, consider the following useless D script: #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s #pragma D option nspec=2 BEGIN { spec1 = speculation(); spec2 = speculation(); } END {

[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:::

Whilst trying out some D to get an insight into what is the most common reason for a given function to return, I have bumped into an error I don''t understand. The first take on what I was trying to do was: # dtrace -n ''fbt:ip:ip_input:return{@home[arg0] = count();}'' and all was well. The next step was: # dtrace -n

Bryan, I''m trying to use a Dtrace script with a modest size global variable and hit a problem. Looking for a solution, I turn to the docs and notice that option "dynvarsize" appears just once in the docs, and it refers you to Chapter 3, where there is no mention. It doesn''t help me anyhow. I have: #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -qws #pragma D option dynvarsize=2000000

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

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

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

As noted on my blog and at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/shells/ I''ve made available a DTrace provider for the Bourne shell. Before anyone starts yelling at me for not starting with another shell, read the blog I made explaining why we started with shell (link on the community page referenced above). For /bin/sh, I''ve put up something akin to a chapter in

G''Day Folks, I''ve found another use of dtrace, this makes your console keyboard sound like a typewriter. http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/typewriter-0.70.tar.gz I''ve only tested it on an UltraSPARC 5 and a Pentium laptop so far, more to follow. Ok, sorry, not actually a practical use of DTrace. :) Enjoy! Brendan [Sydney, Australia]

All, With Jon Haslam''s exciting news about the DTrace doc wiki (if you haven''t seen it yet, make your way to http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace), and with some of the discussion with the Apple folks, I''m wondering if the time isn''t right for something of a DTrace summit, perhaps as an unconference. The idea here would not be a DTrace user group (though that

Hello dtrace-discuss, Sometimes I want to run a script for some time and every n second output N top entries. trunc() isn''t suitable here as it also removed keys/values. I want it ''coz over time if I use sum() entries which are normally truncated can actually get to top over a time. Maybe printa() extension, something like: printa(@b[10]) - to output top 10? --