Hi Matt, On Jul 15 21:49, Mark Geisert wrote: > The new tool formerly known as cygmon is renamed to 'profiler'. For the > name I considered 'ipsampler' and could not think of any others. I'm open > to a different name if any is suggested. > > I decided that a discussion of the pros and cons of this profiler vs the > existing ssp should probably be in the "Profiling Cygwin Programs" section > of the Cygwin User's Guide rather than in the help for either. That > material will be supplied at some point. > > CONTEXT buffers are made child-specific and thus thread-specific since > there is one profiler thread for each child program being profiled. > > The SetThreadPriority() warning comment has been expanded. > > chmod() works on Cygwin so the "//XXX ineffective" comment is gone. > > I decided to make the "sample all executable sections" and "sample > dynamically generated code" suggestions simply expanded comments for now. > > The profiler program is now a Cygwin exe rather than a native exe.
The patchset LGTM, but for the details I'd like jturney to have a look and approve it eventually. Thanks, Corinna
