Re: [PATCH v2 2.6.38-rc8-tip 0/20] 0: Inode based uprobes

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Mar 15 2011 - 14:06:47 EST


Hi Thomas,

> That's a brilliant reason to drop it right away. systemtap is the
> least of our worries.

Feeling defensive about something?

>
> > How do you envisage these features actually get used? For example,
> > will gdb be modified? Will other debuggers be modified or written?
>
> How about answering this question first _BEFORE_ advertising
> systemtap?

I thought this was obvious. systemtap is essentially a script driven
debugger.

-Andi

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