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Drag-n-drop DTrace into Linux Kernel?

Drag-n-drop DTrace into Linux Kernel?

Posted Aug 8, 2007 20:22 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Drag-n-drop DTrace into Linux Kernel? by pr1268
Parent article: On DTrace envy

Does there seem to be any indications that this could happen sometime in the future?

Today there are no need for this: the parts of DTrace which can be easily lifted are already reimplemented in SystemTap, the stuff that remains is important, but tied to Solaris too tightly to be easily lifted...

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