Re: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] binary reading of ftrace ring buffers

[Ingo Oeser]

Hi Steven,

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Any chance of merging them into a single perl script? I.e. the 
> > perl script would embedd the .c code and build it on every 
> > invocation (into /tmp), so that one can do single-tool tracing 
> > with no immediate binary components. Such self-sufficiency is 
> > very handy when probing systems in a minimally invasive way.
> > 
> > And we could also have twice the ugliness for the same price.
> > 
> 
> Gag, that would really be ugly code ;-)

If you want really ugly code, you could do the SYS_splice in perl
via syscall. Just look it up via "perldoc -f syscall" and play around :-)

Best Regards

Ingo Oeser
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