Linked by Adam S on Wed 11th Jun 2008 13:37 UTC
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. 
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Member since:2005-12-14
Member since:2006-01-31
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
Member since:2005-10-11
Member since:2005-11-11
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.
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).
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2008-06-09
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