> I think to avoid this types of confusions gettimeofday's probe should not 
> even be listed:
>   i.e. only whose probes that I can hook on should be shown by dtrace -l

dtrace -l lists all the probes on the system. There's a syscall provider probe
for gettimeofday because there's a corresponding system call. It just so
happens that there's a fasttrap that has supplanted it (the system call
remains for legacy binaries). DTrace will let you trace system activity; in
this case it's doing exactly the right thing in that the probe you've asked
to trace isn't firing because that system call isn't being invoked.

Adam

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Adam Leventhal, Fishworks                     http://blogs.sun.com/ahl
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