PROBE::SOCKET.WRIT(3stap)

💖 PROBE::SOCKET.WRIT 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Socket Tapset manual, page three-stap, and this one is literally about watching a message leave on a socket. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

probe::socket.write_iter — message send via sock_write_iter 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

probe socket.write_iter {}

yeah that's it, that's the whole probe signature, she's lowkey minimal 💅

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✨ VALUES ✨

here's everything you get handed when this probe fires, no cap:

• family — the protocol family value 🫶
• flags — the socket flags value 🌈
• size — message size in bytes (yes, in bytes, she's precise like that) 📏
• name — name of this probe 👑
• type — the socket type value 🎀
• protocol — the protocol value ⭐
• state — the socket state value 🦋

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🌟 CONTEXT 🌟

the message sender, aka the main character of this whole situation 💜

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this probe fires at the very beginning of sending a message on a socket, going through the sock_write_iter function. it's giving "we are SO back, the message is about to go out." 🔥

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• tapset::socket(3stap) 🍓

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀✨

this was the SystemTap Tapset Reference, Version, dated September 2026 — so like, go off, September 2026. 💖 thanks for reading, ily, go write some probes 🫶🌈