[dtrace-discuss] DTrace in daemon code

[Michael Schuster]

Rayson Ho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A deamon is a *normal* process. The controling terminal, and other
> stuff may be thrown away during the daemonization process, but DTrace
> should still work.

I know, that's why I'm a little surprised that I couldn't find any examples.
> 
> As an example, MySQL also uses SDT, and MySQL is run as a daemon as well.

ah ... that's not in ON, that's why :-)

thx
Michael
> Rayson
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/26/09, Michael Schuster <Michael.Schuster at sun.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> we're considering instrumenting the daemon we're developing for our project
>> with SDT probes, and were a little surprised that a few cursory(sp?)
>> searches didn't reveal any examples for this - does that mean
>> a) we didn't search enough
>> b) we're treading where no man has gone before
>> c) there's some inherent issues with this?
>>
>> We'd appreciate any insight/feedback/pointers.
>>
>> thx
>> Michael
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