On 06/20/2011 09:44 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > What benefit is there in continuing to carry this thing at all ? > Utrace has been an absolute disaster from a merging standpoint. > Even Xen didn't take this long to get upstream.
I can't dispute the upstream disappointment, but the obvious benefit is enabling uprobes for systemtap. There are a growing number of packages building in markers with systemtap-sdt-devel for debugging and tracing, so they will expect a way to hook into these. Yes, the impending inode-uprobes will be sufficient for this case, but it's a step backwards in other respects as well. Josh
