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author | aiju <devnull@localhost> | 2018-12-08 17:24:23 +0000 |
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committer | aiju <devnull@localhost> | 2018-12-08 17:24:23 +0000 |
commit | 722a1a33347c759c797da9f889ceaed304092aff (patch) | |
tree | bd1bb824527a7a3fef7dad1e52fb49651a6acf5f /sys | |
parent | 6056a46c6498c1f500124f1523c33f696b834898 (diff) |
fix dtracy man page
Diffstat (limited to 'sys')
-rw-r--r-- | sys/man/1/dtracy | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys/man/1/dtracy b/sys/man/1/dtracy index 38020f6ca..af2d43af4 100644 --- a/sys/man/1/dtracy +++ b/sys/man/1/dtracy @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ dtracy \- dynamic tracing language .SH DESCRIPTION .I Dtracy is a language for dynamic tracing of the kernel. -Essentially, they allow the user to define small programs in kernel space that are triggered by certain events (known as probes) upon which they are executed. +Essentially, it allows the user to define small programs in kernel space that are triggered by certain events (known as probes) upon which they are executed. .PP .I Dtracy uses an @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ program is a series of statements of one of the following forms Each probe consists of three parts separated by \fL:\fR. If a part is omitted (e.g. \fLqsys::entry\fR), it matches all probes that match the remaining parts. .PP -\fIPredicate\fR, if specified, is an expression that must evaluate to a non-zero values for the actions to be executed. +\fIPredicate\fR, if specified, is an expression that must evaluate to a non-zero value for the actions to be executed. .PP \fIActions\fR is a semicolon-separated list of statements of one of the following forms: .IP @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ prints its arguments using a format string with syntax. However, there is no need to specify the argument size, e.g. \fL%d\fR works for all integer types. .PP -Statements of the form \fL@\fIname\fL[\fIindex\fL] = \fIaggregation-expr\fR collect statistics using a data structures referred to as an aggregation. +Statements of the form \fL@\fIname\fL[\fIindex\fL] = \fIaggregation-expr\fR collect statistics using a data structure referred to as an aggregation. Each time the statement is evaluated adds another datapoint to the aggregation, which will be printed in tabular form when .I dtracy finishes. |