[kde-discuss] D-Bus DTrace provider?

[Stefan Teleman]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> An idea from a hallway discussion after last week's
> KDE-on-OpenSolaris presentation:
> 
>    Has anyone given consideration to adding a dtrace provider to
>    the D-Bus IPC mechanism that GNOME, KDE, and HAL use?
> 
> Given the increasing number of hardware state updates being
> communicated over the bus (it's already used for removable
> media mounts/unmounts and laptop battery state, and the
> current power management cases in the ARC add more uses,
> as will Xorg server 1.4 when we move to it), and the increasing
> use in both the GNOME & KDE desktops, it would seem like a useful
> source of events for triggering dtrace probes.


We did talk about it briefly on #kde-solaris on freenode a couple weeks ago.

I know John Sonnenschein is working on dtrace probes for the Apache Standard C++ 
Library. D-Bus/HAL DTrace probes would be a very interesting project under the 
Desktop umbrella methinks.

--Stefan

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Stefan Teleman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM