Re: Profiling timer not delivered during syscalls?

Martin v. Loewis (martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 00:48:41 +0100

> Is this behavior expected? I would have thought that time spent in
> system calls would be pretty important when profiling an application.

Profiling uses the profil(2/3) utility here. It is not a system call
on Linux, so behaviour with regard to system calls might be surprising
(actually, it is a system call, but that does not work). Instead, it
is a C library function implemented with standard system calls (see
glibc sources for details).

If you think this should change, please report that to the Linux
and/or glibc maintainers.

Regards,
Martin

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