Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:38:30 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: Charlie Martin <crmartin@sgi.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dtrace in FreeBSD 7.2 Message-ID: <4E777006.8040907@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4E776B03.7030100@sgi.com> References: <4E73B1E1.6020306@sgi.com> <1316220398.47177.1.camel@rho.emma.line.org> <4E776B03.7030100@sgi.com>
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On 9/19/11 9:17 AM, Charlie Martin wrote: > Dude, you say that like it was an option. It's understood about the realities of commercial decisions, however, if you really want to trace APPS that means user space dtrace and 7.2 just doesn't have the hooks to do non-kernel dtrace. As a side note, realize that Dtrace support in FreeBSD had a serious problem a couple of years ago when the lead developer suddenly dropped dead (Very literally, to out great sadness), and it took a while for alternative resources to fill the gap. > > On 2011-09-16 18:46, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Am Freitag, den 16.09.2011, 14:30 -0600 schrieb Charlie Martin: >>> I need to add some custom static dtrace probes in 7.2 apps; the >>> online >>> documentation refers only to 9 however. Can someone tell me how to >>> replace what's done in bsd.dtrace.mk for 7.2? >> FreeBSD 7.2 is quite old and wasn't under extended support, hence >> it is >> no longer supported. Consider upgrading. >>
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