[DTrace-devel] [PATCH 3/3] doc: Clean up list of unimplemented functions

Kris Van Hees kris.van.hees at oracle.com
Fri Dec 19 05:57:39 UTC 2025


Comments below...

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 02:00:03PM -0500, eugene.loh at oracle.com wrote:
> From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
> ---
>  doc/userguide/reference/unimplemented_functions.md | 12 ------------
>  1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/userguide/reference/unimplemented_functions.md b/doc/userguide/reference/unimplemented_functions.md
> index f69600b56..a63bffdde 100644
> --- a/doc/userguide/reference/unimplemented_functions.md
> +++ b/doc/userguide/reference/unimplemented_functions.md
> @@ -6,25 +6,13 @@ and some functions are not relevant to Linux and might never be implemented.
>  The following functions are not currently implemented:
>  
>  -   `breakpoint`
> -
>  -   `chill`
> -
>  -   `dpath`

This is actually called d_path() and was always meant to be used internally.
It *is* implemented although only as a stub that always returns "<unknown>".
So, I am not sure whether we want it listed here as unimplemented, but I also
would not document it elsewhere.

So, perhaps just remove it here also and remain silent on it?

>  -   `ddi_pathname`
> -
> --   `inet_ntoa6`
> -
> --   `inet_ntop`
> -
>  -   `msgdsize`
> -
>  -   `msgsize`
> -
>  -   `panic`
> -
>  -   `pcap`
> -
>  -   `stop`
>  
> -
>  **Parent topic:**[DTrace Function Reference](../reference/dtrace_functions.md)
> -- 
> 2.47.3
> 



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