* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:25:35 +0530 Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> >         I have developed a patch, that lists all active probes in 
> > the system.
> 
> userspace added the probes, so userspace should know where they all 
> are?

it's a kernel resource that user-space can influence so it's sensible to 
have some sort of visibility to them. For example if the userspace that 
has the 'info' crashes then another piece of user-space might want to 
recreate that info, to zap the probes.

also, this resource could leak, etc.

	Ingo
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