Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750977AbWCaAny (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:43:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751078AbWCaAnx (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:43:53 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:23739 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750977AbWCaAnx (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:43:53 -0500 To: Valerie Henson Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , Tushar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: DTrace for Linux References: <323d1f6f0603282214m4a2c65b0t2e2bf7e74352e5f@mail.gmail.com> <20060328225203.7443c09f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20060330205537.GF16173@goober> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: 30 Mar 2006 19:43:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060330205537.GF16173@goober> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 635 Lines: 11 Valerie Henson writes: > [...] My opinion is that a port of DTrace to Linux would be > extremely valuable, above and beyond the goals of SystemTap. It is > also my opinion that it will be extremely difficult. :) Beyond the technical challenges, a legal one (SCSL-vs-GPL license incompatibility) would at least complicate deployment of a plain port. - FChE - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/