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Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week

Posted Oct 6, 2007 23:59 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by intgr
Parent article: Quotes of the week

I'm by no means a kernel expert, but judging from what I've read, SystemTap is not an answer: it cannot be safely enabled on production systems. Otherwise you might bring your real-time banking system down while testing a supposedly secure probe. (Also, it has to be enabled on production systems beforehand.)

SystemTap hackers will tell you otherwise, so read for yourself.


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