Fwd: Re: Fail to use Dtrace on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:

> on 04/12/2010 04:28 Zhihao Yuan said the following:
> > My world and kernel are sync. Is it possible that the dtrace-enabled
> kernel must
> > be compiled with '-g'?
>
> It shouldn't be a requirement.  But please try.
>
> DTrace (userland utility on FreeBSD) self-diagnostics really should be
> improved.
> Obscure complaints about problem in system .d files do not help at all for
> a
> user to understand what the actual problem could be.  Sigh.
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon
>

Yes... I hope the coming 8.2-RELEASE can have these 3 providers
http://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace/userland
especially the pid provider. :(
So far, we can only trace some system calls used by a userland program,
which may bot be that helpful.

-- 
Zhihao Yuan
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.