Apple Quietly Fixes DTrace

In January we discussed a blog entry revealing that Apple had "crippled" its DTrace port. As the author notes in a followup post, to say that DTrace had been "crippled" was at least overstated: "Unfortunately, most reactions seized on a headline paraphrasing a line of the post — albeit with the critical negation omitted." In an updated entry, the poster notes that Apple has made good (so we have too): "One issue was that timer based probes wouldn't fire if certain applications were actively executing (e.g. iTunes). This was evident both by counting periodic probe firings, and by the absence of certain applications when profiling. The good news is that Apple has (quietly) fixed the problem in Mac OS X 10.5.3."

Comments

Re:Took them long enough

[powerlord]

This sort of issue wouldn't survive for a week on Linux.

Developer specific issues like this would certainly be fixed quickly under Linux, since it is a developer OS. On the other hand, usability issues that get fixed quickly under OS X, are often left to languor under Linux.

In both cases those features may never be fixed under Windows (or would be broken again after the next "Service Pack" :P )