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heinrichhartmanyesterday at 12:03 PM1 replyview on HN

From my experience most DTrace users rely on DTrace "providers" [1] and Static Trace Points [2] rather than directly probing kernel structs. Also these days the Solaris kernel is not moving all that much.

[1] https://www.illumos.org/books/dtrace/chp-syscall.html#chp-sy... [2] https://www.illumos.org/books/dtrace/chp-sdt.html#chp-sdt


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toast0yesterday at 4:35 PM

DTrace isn't limited to Solaris. Per Wikipedia, it's in FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS (but you can't use it with SIP), and Windows. And lots of userland stuff too.