Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:36:38 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] To list all active probes in the system |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:25:35 +0530 Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> wrote: > > > I have developed a patch, that lists all active probes in > > the system. > > userspace added the probes, so userspace should know where they all > are?
it's a kernel resource that user-space can influence so it's sensible to have some sort of visibility to them. For example if the userspace that has the 'info' crashes then another piece of user-space might want to recreate that info, to zap the probes.
also, this resource could leak, etc.
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