Bug 186139

Summary: shouldn't print the literal pid in --help
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component: systemtapAssignee: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Jay Turner <jturner>
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Description Bill Nottingham 2006-03-21 20:45:29 UTC 
Description of problem:

# stap --help 2>&1| grep -- -m
   -m MODULE  set probe module name, instead of stap_24898

Probably should state that it's stap_<pid>, not a literal number.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

0.5.4-2.2
Comment 1 Frank Ch. Eigler 2006-03-22 17:59:15 UTC 
Do you feel really strongly about this?  All the "instead of ..." messages print
the current value (after fixed initialization and after prior command line options).
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2006-03-22 19:15:17 UTC 
Well, I feel it's strange that it's printing a value that's guaranteed to be
incorrect if you run it again.
Comment 3 Frank Ch. Eigler 2006-07-31 17:34:09 UTC 
I understand your concern, and appreciate your attention.  Still, I think the
problem is not big enough to worry about special-casing.  (As for "stap_<pid>"
instead, that too taken literally is guaranteed incorrect. :-)