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STAPPROBES.PROCESS(5) STAPPROBES.PROCESS(5) NAME stapprobes.process - systemtap process probe points DESCRIPTION This family of probe points is used to probe the process activities. It contains the following probe points: process.create Fires whenever a new process is successfully created, either as a result of one of the fork syscall variants, or a new kernel thread. Arguments: task a handle to the newly created process new_pid pid of the newly created process process.start Fires immediately before a new process begins execution. Arguments: N/A process.exec Fires whenever a process attempts to exec to a new program Arguments: filename the path to the new executable process.exec_complete Fires at the completion of an exec call Arguments: errno the error number resulting from the exec success a boolean indicating whether the exec was successful process.exit Fires when a process terminates. This will always be followed by a process.release, though the latter may be delayed if the pro- cess waits in a zombie state. Arguments: code the exit code of the process process.release Fires when a process is released from the kernel. This always follows a process.exit, though it may be delayed somewhat if the process waits in a zombie state. Arguments: task a task handle to the process being released pid pid of the process being released SEE ALSO stap(1), stapprobes(5), Intel, IBM 2008-11-13 STAPPROBES.PROCESS(5)