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Re: SystemTap for Android - patchset

Hi -

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 10:05:23PM +0200, Alexander Lochmann wrote:
> [...]
> > % sh pidwrapper /path/to/this.pid staprun foo bar baz
> > 
> That would be a nice workaround. I went through the source code. The
> commandline option is used by stapio. Stapio creates the pidfile. If I
> send a SIGKILL (or was it a SIGTERM? what so ever) to staprun, stap and
> the module won't be shutdown properly. Hence, I have to send the signal
> to stapio.

Since staprun exec's stapio, the latter will also share the same pid.
So this wrapper would work, whichever process happens to be running at
the moment.  (Send SIGTERM or SIGINT for a clean shutdown.)


- FChE
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