On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Nathaniel W Filardo <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:07:22AM +0000, [email protected] wrote: >>> yet too dangerous due to its possible unbounded runtime >> >> I keep hearing this brought up, but (while I am not an expert) AFAICT, the >> runtime for each D hook should be strictly bounded by the number of >> instructions lobbed in, since D does not (without root override, perhaps?) >> support backwards jumps. Am I mistaken in my understanding of DTrace? > > You are right. I don't think runtime is unbounded. At the same time, > I'm still trying to locate example scripts to get an idea of how > complex it is. I'm talking to people at sun to get a handle on the > question.
What exactly do you want to know? I worked with DTrace quite extensively. Thanks, Roman.
