Hi. On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:27:20AM -0800, Weaver wrote: > Of interest to some? > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/19/oracle_open_sources_dtrace_changes_licence_to_gpl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16375938 Brendan Gregg, author of DTrace Toolkit, has this to say about it: Unfortunately for DTrace, this is too late. Oracle should have done this years ago. Now Linux has a more powerful tracer builtin, eBPF, and it would be a backwards step to switch the kernel code to DTrace (assuming the DTrace port is completed, which it is not). I'm sure this will not be lost on the maintainers, who have the ultimate say as to what is included in Linux mainline. The only hope for DTrace is to have the frontend emit BPF bytecode. The bulk of this GPL DTrace code is no longer needed, only the user-level front end. So, folks, nothing to see here, really. Move along to: https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools https://github.com/iovisor/bcc Reco
