new_tracepoint
🔗NAME
new_tracepoint
🔗SYNOPSIS
create a function returning a tracepoint
🔗USAGE
local dd = require "lib/dtutils.debug"
local result = dd.new_tracepoint(name, ...)
name - string - the name of the tracepoint to print out
… - arguments - variables to dump the contents of
🔗DESCRIPTION
new_tracepoint returns a tracepoint function with the given name. This is mainly used to debug callbacks.
🔗RETURN VALUE
result - function - a function that returns the result of a tracepoint
🔗EXAMPLE
register_event(event, dd.new_tracepoint("hit callback"))
will print the following each time the callback is called
**** hit callback ****
<all the callback's parameters dumped>