dtrace in FreeBSD 7.2

[Charlie Martin]

On 2011-09-19 10:38, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 9/19/11 9:17 AM, Charlie Martin wrote:
>> Dude, you say that like it was an option.
>
> It's understood about the realities of commercial decisions, however, 
> if you really want to trace APPS
> that means user space dtrace  and 7.2 just doesn't have the hooks to 
> do non-kernel dtrace.

I think in fact I want to add probes in kernel space; I was trying to 
play with it in user space just to avoid a lot of test kernels.

>
> As a side note, realize that Dtrace support in FreeBSD had a serious 
> problem a couple of years ago
> when the lead developer suddenly dropped dead (Very literally, to out 
> great sadness), and it took
> a while for alternative resources to fill the gap.

I bet.  I'd kind of gotten that idea but don't know the history; I was 
working in Solaris until recently.

>
>>
>> On 2011-09-16 18:46, Matthias Andree wrote:
>>> Am Freitag, den 16.09.2011, 14:30 -0600 schrieb Charlie Martin:
>>>> I need to add some custom static dtrace probes in 7.2 apps; the online
>>>> documentation refers only to 9 however.  Can someone tell me how to
>>>> replace what's done in bsd.dtrace.mk for 7.2?
>>> FreeBSD 7.2 is quite old and wasn't under extended support, hence it is
>>> no longer supported. Consider upgrading.
>>>
>
>

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