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diff --git a/development/bpftrace/slack-desc b/development/bpftrace/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8d36c60ed9 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/bpftrace/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. +# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and +# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. +# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. + + |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| +bpftrace: bpftrace (bpftrace is a high-level tracing language for Linux BPF) +bpftrace: +bpftrace: bpftrace is a high-level tracing language for Linux enhanced +bpftrace: Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) available in recent Linux kernels. +bpftrace: bpftrace uses LLVM as a backend to compile scripts to BPF-bytecode +bpftrace: and makes use of BCC for interacting with the Linux BPF system, as +bpftrace: well as existing Linux tracing capabilities: kernel dynamic tracing +bpftrace: (kprobes), user-level dynamic tracing (uprobes), and tracepoints. +bpftrace: The bpftrace language is inspired by awk and C, and predecessor +bpftrace: tracers such as DTrace and SystemTap. +bpftrace: |