From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 1 04:26:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1199B16A402 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 04:26:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D93AD13C457 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 04:26:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689A35D00; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:07:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WGyTnjczXb0l; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:07:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-116-136.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.116.136]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6185C66; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:07:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <460F3015.5020308@mac.com> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:07:49 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harrison Grundy References: <20070329215652.GD1524@roadrunner.q.local> <20070330192406.GA17536@xor.obsecurity.org> <460F27B0.6040100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <460F27B0.6040100@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tiffany Snyder , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will these new features make it into 7.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:26:03 -0000 Harrison Grundy wrote: > Tiffany Snyder wrote: >> Kris, >> would you be able to elaborate more on why DTrace has ben >> suspended due to non-technical reasons - basically what the issue? I >> seen a few from -current offering to help. I just saw another email on >> this very topic on the OpenSolaris dtrace mailing list. >> >> Tiffany. >> > As I understand it, its an issue with some of Sun's header files, and > the CDDL. > > I'm working on a clean re-implimentation of these, but there's currently > no ETA on when this will be accomplished, or even if this will be > sufficent. Has anyone asked Sun whether they would dual-license the needed header files under a BSD-friendly license? Or whether they would publish the APIs via an RFC so that you could easily re-implement against that as a published spec? Sun's released lots of things like XDR and NFS via RFCs, so it's at least not unprecedented. :-) Anyone know Casper Dik well? -- -Chuck