[lttng-dev] Can tracepoint be listed before app registered?

[Thibault, Daniel]

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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:56:00 +0800

> The use case is as such a scenario:
> The target app has defined many events and  the user don't want to go over the source code to recall them. Instead, after creating a new session,
> user issue a hypothetical subcommand 'load_probe' which gather the information from the probe library.And since then, user is able to list all
> available events yet before any app is launched.
>
> Mathieu 's idea  implementing a ELF parser to provide early event-listing feature is a  good proposal. However, do you think the quantity of work
> is plenty enough to be a GSoC proposal?  I asked that because I saw some idea was turned down due to 'not complex enough' in some IRC channel.
>
> Lingyu

   I would see this as a natural extension of the list command.  Something like 'lttng list -u --application=/path/app'.

Daniel U. Thibault
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