Document Information
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Types, Operators, and Expressions
3. Variables
4. D Program Structure
5. Pointers and Arrays
6. Strings
7. Structs and Unions
8. Type and Constant Definitions
9. Aggregations
10. Actions and Subroutines
11. Buffers and Buffering
12. Output Formatting
13. Speculative Tracing
14. dtrace(1M) Utility
15. Scripting
16. Options and Tunables
17. dtrace Provider
BEGIN Probe
The END Probe
ERROR Probe
Stability
18. lockstat Provider
19. profile Provider
20. fbt Provider
21. syscall Provider
22. sdt Provider
23. sysinfo Provider
24. vminfo Provider
25. proc Provider
26. sched Provider
27. io Provider
28. mib Provider
29. fpuinfo Provider
30. pid Provider
31. plockstat Provider
32. fasttrap Provider
33. User Process Tracing
34. Statically Defined Tracing for User Applications
35. Security
36. Anonymous Tracing
37. Postmortem Tracing
38. Performance Considerations
39. Stability
40. Translators
41. Versioning
Glossary
Index
The dtrace provider provides several probes related to DTrace itself. You can use these probes to initialize state before tracing begins, process state after tracing has completed, and handle unexpected execution errors in other probes.
