[Python-Dev] DTRACE support

Jesus Cea jcea at jcea.es
Fri Sep 6 17:24:08 CEST 2013


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On 06/09/13 17:18, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I looked at this several years ago. As I recall, the problem at the
> time was that the Apple and Sun DTrace implementations were
> incompatible, or that the probes they had inserted into their own
> /usr/bin/python instances were incompatible. (Don't remember which
> off the top of my head.) Of course, the DTrace folks at Apple and
> Sun weren't really interested in holding hands...

Right. They use two different set of probes because Python doesn't
provide "official" probes :-).

If I recall correctly, they were basically identical, with an extra
parameter somewhere. I think my patch provides a superset.

Anyway, I don't think neither of them support Python 3. Time to step
in and liderate.

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