* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:25:35 +0530 Srinivasa Ds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have developed a patch, that lists all active probes in
> > the system.
>
> userspace added the probes, so userspace should know where they all
> are?
it's a kernel resource that user-space can influence so it's sensible to
have some sort of visibility to them. For example if the userspace that
has the 'info' crashes then another piece of user-space might want to
recreate that info, to zap the probes.
also, this resource could leak, etc.
Ingo
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