RE: Anyone interested in having additional debugging support in NPTL via a tracing facility?

>>Does this duplicate any functionality in oprofile?

Nope, this is totally different.  It is primarily useful for debugging.

-Jer


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dan Kegel [mailto:[email protected]]
>>Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 2:06 AM
>>To: Harrow, Jerry
>>Cc: [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: Anyone interested in having additional debugging support
in
>>NPTL via a tracing facility?
>>
>>Harrow, Jerry wrote:
>>> I've had some on & off discussions with Ulrich about adding detailed
>>> event tracing support to NPTL for quite a while.  While favoring the
>>> idea in general, Ulrich isn't convinced that people (i.e. you all)
have
>>> much of a desire for it.  When I last posted a proposal in this
regard
>>>
(https://listman.redhat.com/archives/phil-list/2002-December/msg00043.ht
>>> ml) there was only one reply -- obviously not an overwhelming
>>> endorsement.  I've done some updates on the original proposal and
>>> published it to
>>>
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/visualthreads/Linux/NPTLTracingV2.html
>>
>>Does this duplicate any functionality in oprofile?
>>- Dan