Re: DTrace syscall provider - please test/comment

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 01:06:58PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> I am trying to balance that against adding of two more conditionals per
> syscall per architecture and touching dozens of source files adding the
> same code in each one. Perhaps the syscall_plain/syscall_fancy idea

One solution dtrace has for this is binary patch.  The patching code used
for fbt could perhaps be used to address this issue, if a branch or even
a conditional in an appropriate place could be found to patch.

Thor