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Apple Quietly Fixes DTrace

Posted by kdawson on from the understating-it dept.

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."

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  1. LOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fail!

  2. Re:Took them long enough by stewbacca · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Modded insightful? I found it to be funny as hell! Thanks for the good chuckle this morning.

  3. Mac's Suck by imus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can prove it. Try this yourself. Write a simple c or c++ hello_word program. Then try to compile and link it with Xcode using -static. It won't work b/c Apple has fucked-up ld. You can even compile a GNU GCC suite from xCode, but there is no way to get around the fucked-up ld. How stupid is that?

  4. Re:Took them long enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Surely you must be joking!