[dtrace-discuss] status of DTrace on Leopard?

[David Pacheco]

Rich Morin wrote:
> The last time I played with DTrace on OSX, there were a couple
> of obnoxious problems:
> 
>   *  Any app could shut down tracing for the entire system.

If you're referring to the problem where tracing an app that doesn't 
want to be traced can affect probes not directed at that app (i.e. from 
the profile provider), that's been addressed:

http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/apple_updates_dtrace_again

I don't know about the other issues.

-- Dave

> 
>   *  There wasn't any way to get the full path for the CWD.
> 
> Could someone let me know if these have been resolved and/or
> point me to relevant web pages, etc?
> 
> -r


-- 
David Pacheco, Sun Microsystems Fishworks.     http://blogs.sun.com/dap/