Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

Posted Feb 23, 2012 9:42 UTC (Thu) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: Oracle offering DTrace for Linux by tialaramex
Parent article: Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

"A big part of the supposed benefit of DTrace has been "You can just do this stuff and it's safe and will do exactly what it says on the tin". If they deliver that on Linux then it will be far harder to argue that it shouldn't get merged."

DTrace managed to do that for Solaris largely because it has a much more closed-box kernel.

Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

Posted Feb 24, 2012 13:40 UTC (Fri) by davecb (subscriber, #1574) [Link]

I'd suggest it did it not because the kernel was closed, but rather that the compiler shoved the functionality into a really cramped little closed box, so it had trouble causing the traced programs problems, either directly or even by side-effect.

--dave