From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 21:21:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689EE1065670 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:21:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jb@what-creek.com) Received: from what-creek.com (what-creek.com [66.111.37.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CAB98FC2E for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:21:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jb@what-creek.com) Received: by what-creek.com (Postfix, from userid 102) id CAE737330A; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:21:21 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:21:21 +0000 From: John Birrell To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20080621212121.GB46412@what-creek.com> References: <20080611051257.GA51683@what-creek.com> <200806211900.29140.max@love2party.net> <485D4510.9070703@telenix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <485D4510.9070703@telenix.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Max Laier , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting started with DTrace in FreeBSD-current (a.k.a. 8) 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: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:21:22 -0000 On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 02:14:40PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > Interesting. Can I ask, has the problem with (in the Xorg build) the uid_t not > being recognized been gotten past yet? I have a system that could be testing in > only a few minutes, if you tell me it's probably fixed. The problem is that the Xorg port is trying to use dtrace for something on FreeBSD it shouldn't. The fact that uid_t is not being recognised is just a consequence of dtrace being used without CTF data in the kernel. If you haven't got CTF data in your kernel, then dtrace is of no use to you. -- John Birrell