Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port 476
Linnen writes in to note that one of developers of Sun's open source system tracing tool, DTrace, has discovered that Apple crippled its port of the tool so that software like iTunes could not be traced. From Adam Leventhal's blog: "I let it run for a while, made iTunes do some work, and the result when I stopped the script? Nothing. The expensive DTrace invocation clearly caused iTunes to do a lot more work, but DTrace was giving me no output. Which started me thinking... did they? Surely not. They wouldn't disable DTrace for certain applications. But that's exactly what Apple's done with their DTrace implementation. The notion of true systemic tracing was a bit too egalitarian for their classist sensibilities..."
Eagles have nothing to do with this (Score:5, Funny)
Classist Apple? Anti-egaliitarian IBM tolls? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And as quick as it is reported (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great! (Score:5, Funny)
It might be easier to just attend a Macworld conference.
gcc -ideo ramshackle world.cpp (Score:5, Funny)
This is Slashdot where "paper or plastic" is an epic struggle directly and immediately affecting the fates of billions!
BILLIONS, I tell you! BILLIONS!
Re:DRM bad, but "classist sensibilities"? (Score:1, Funny)
Slashdot Headline Accuracy? (Score:5, Funny)
Nice...
Re:And as quick as it is reported (Score:4, Funny)
Re:And as quick as it is reported (Score:5, Funny)
. . . . . . . . You
Evil bit (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And as quick as it is reported (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Classist Apple? Anti-egaliitarian IBM tolls? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Luckily... (Score:3, Funny)
* If the thread on which this probe has fired belongs to a process marked P_LNOATTACH
* then this enabling is not permitted to observe it. Move along, nothing to see here.
*/
So... written by a slashdot reader? Don't know of many other places that displays that message on a regular basis.
Re:And as quick as it is reported (Score:5, Funny)
Going by namechecks on Slashdot, three. Ubuntu, Fedora, and Gentoo. But I don't think anyone's ever finished installing Gentoo.
What a tragedy (Score:5, Funny)
It will be tricky to make the Windows port twice as horrible though. Maybe I can get it to punch the user in the face every ten minutes?
Re:And as quick as it is reported (Score:5, Funny)
it's a slippery slope to genocide, folks (Score:5, Funny)
Then, they came for gettytab, but I did not speak out, because I was happy with Apple's default terminal configuration.
Then, they came for snort, but I was not worried about intrusion detection so I did not speak up.
Next, they came for mkdep, but I did not speak out, because the maid does all my compiling.
Sadly, when it came time for them to use killall, there was nobody left to speak up for me!
Re:Apple is not a monopoly!!!1!!1 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:DRM? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:And as quick as it is reported (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And as quick as it is reported (Score:3, Funny)
To use a famous bit of cricket sledging... "I don't know, ask your wife"
Bill Gates is his fan base. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:And as quick as it is reported (Score:3, Funny)