Re: dtrace for linux

[paul]

> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:17 AM,  <fox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  I would like to announce that I am working on dtrace for Linux.
> >  I have the userland dtrace binary compiled, along with the first
> >  pre-pre-alpha dtracedrv.ko module loaded into my kernel.
> 
> This is great news. How will this dtrace implementation differ from
> SystemTap (http://sourceware.org/systemtap/) ?
> 
> Bart.
> 
> 

Hello Bart,


I dont know systemtap all that well, other than what i have
read on the net and browsed in the source. systemtap is similar,
but dtrace provides a high level functional language (D) and
a set of methodologies and scripts which mean learning/training
will make it easier to use.

In addition, dtrace promises to be kernel safe (whether or not it
is will be down to how good a job I do I guess!)

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