[dtrace] syscall provider naming convention.
Andriy Gapon
avg at freebsd.org
Fri Dec 24 20:00:16 UTC 2010
on 24/12/2010 04:02 Artem Belevich said the following:
>> I have one comment though. I am not sure about renaming syscall.ko to
>> syscall_freebsd.ko.
>
> You mean systrace_freebsd.ko.
Yes, thanks.
> I've renamed it for consistency with other systrace provider variants.
> I can change it back.
I think that I would prefer this.
If only for POLA reasons.
>> Perhaps we could keep the old name? Or add a new module
>> under that name that would load native syscall module and all emulation syscall
>> modules (if any)?
>
> I'm not sure that creating an umbrella 'systrace' module is worth it.
> "kldload /boot/kernel/systrace*" should do that just fine. The reason
> dtrace exists is that there are number of modules with dtrace
> providers that are not easily distinguishable by their name.
I agree.
I am going on vacation and I don't want to risk, so it looks like I will be able
to commit your patch after the holidays. Unless someone else beats me to it.
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Andriy Gapon
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