Re: [RFC PATCH] Tracepoint: add exec tracepoint

[David Smith]

On 10/18/2011 01:58 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 01:41:35PM -0500, David Smith wrote:
>> Added general purpose exec tracepoint.  The 'bprm' argument gives details of the exec.
> 
> Given that you only need the filename from the bprm please just pass
> it directly.


Thanks for looking at the patch.

I'm not totally opposed to this change, but passing bprm allows custom
tracepoint handlers to look at other fields in bprm besides filename,
which could be useful (depending on your needs).

But, I don't have a real strong opinion here.

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