[issue4111] Add DTrace probes

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> added the comment:

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:05, Skip Montanaro <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> added the comment:
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> Brett> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.5/python-30.1.2/
>    ...
>    Brett> http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref//jds/spec-files/trunk/patches/Python-07-dtrace.diff
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> Thanks for the pointers.  I'll work on getting a uniform patch which
> incorporates both.  (Though some of the comments in the OpenSolaris patch
> are a bit scary.)
>
>    Brett> There's another problem (I think) with DTrace probes ... if the
>    Brett> Apple guys release Apple-Probe-Python.d and the Sun guys release
>    Brett> Sun-Probe-Python.d (just two scripts) and we setup our probes
>    Brett> differently, one or both will fail (because one may expect a
>    Brett> probe for foo while another expects a probe for bar).  Kind of
>    Brett> sucks, considering Sun was first and Apple chose to probe Python
>    Brett> differently.
>
> Yeah, that would suck.  It would be nice if they could agree on a common set
> of probes.  I don't know that we have any contacts within the two
> development communities but if we can scare some up maybe we can get them to
> talk to each other. :-/
>

Obviously Ronald is the Apple insider to talk to. If you want Sun, you
might want to talk to Ted Leung and see who he can put you in touch
with.

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