[dtrace-discuss] Handling userland char ** pointers

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 02:55:26PM -0700, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> The problem is that the expansion is being done in different places.  There
> are some plans (nothing implemented yet, as far as I know) to have D more
> directly allow manipulation of user data, which would probably help here.

It would be very nice if DTrace could be aware of user-land CTF data and
able to chase pointers in user-land, though it might complicate the
syntax.

Perhaps a keyword could be added to distinguish user-land and
kernel-land types?  But, then header inclusion would be complicated (or
maybe not).

Nico
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