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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:58:51 +0000
From:      John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDTRACE is gone?
Message-ID:  <20061123215851.GA56442@what-creek.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061123213659.GA8405@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <2b22951e0611212109t69b01400q5eb0ba15b028ce68@mail.gmail.com> <20061122051359.GA42639@what-creek.com> <4564B095.3000002@evilphi.com> <20061122214505.GB48004@what-creek.com> <20061123213659.GA8405@localhost.localdomain>

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On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 10:36:59PM +0100, Stanislaw Halik wrote:
> Why isn't importing it as a non-default option acceptable? I believe a
> lot of users would be happy to include it in their custom kernels.

Because in 5 years time when there is a production server that 
can't be rebooted, I want the admins to be able to run DTrace.
The only way I can guarantee that is by making the ability to
load DTrace kernel modules available to everyone.

DTrace isn't intended as a toy.

--
John Birrell



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