Remember back in January when Sun engineer Adam Leventhal shared that Apple had “crippled” DTrace? Well, it appears that the latest point release of Leopard silently restored DTrace to full function. According to Levanthal, on 10.5.3, the output of DTrace is “exactly what one would expect“. DTrace can be used right now on your updated Leopard install.
Apple Updates DTrace in Mac OS X 10.5.3
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OS X is shaping up to be a real developers UNIX. With ZFS, full DTRACE, GNU tools, X11 it may become the leading OpenSolaris distribution, beating Project Indiana at its own game!
Solaris is not DTrace or ZFS, let alone GNU or X11 (which don’t have anything to do with Sun, let alone solaris)
Perhaps you should’ve turned your sarcasm detector on for that one.
Ok, after taking another look i think i just made myself look like an idiot 😉
Honestly though, its kind of sad that I just assume something that off the wall to be serious…
I would love to see a Linux port of DTrace. Why hasn’t this happened yet? Would it be to hard to port, licensing issues? I had assumed it was licensing issues, but it appears Apple has done it.
Edited 2008-06-11 17:57 UTC
In my opinion, it’s a lack of will justified by licensing blather. It’s almost always easier to talk about why something can’t/shouldn’t be done than to just do it.
Cue someone telling me why it can’t/shouldn’t be done…
Because of the license issues. It has nothing to do with NIH.
For Linux there’s a different tool: SystemTap. It is an open source project, http://sourceware.org/systemtap, started by ‘the big guys’, but AFAIK it isn’t included in any distro by default. The project is a few years old, is actually active ( I checked the git repo ), but I can’t tell you what the actual state is…
Harry
NIH syndrome?
Mac OS X and Linux do not have the same license, so saying that Mac OS X (or FreeBSD) has it is not an argument to say there is no problem for linux to get it (from a licensing POV).
Funded by Y!, And yea it rocks
[sorry, wrong thread, please mod down/remove]
Edited 2008-06-11 21:28 UTC