Roman Shaposhnik writes:
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:06 -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> > "self" is local to the thread executing, and thus crosses the
> > boundaries between the separate probe points.  "this" is local to a
> > single probe clause.
> > 
> > "this->test" wouldn't work here.
> 
> That's why I asked. And based one the quote from Adam's blog -- your
> interpretation is NOT what I believe probe-local variables do:
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/pid2proc_for_dtrace:
[...]

Thanks; I wasn't aware that 'this' would span distinct clauses as long
as the probe point itself remains the same.  That's surprising and
useful.  ;-}

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