On 20/02/2015 9:22 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:58:35 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
But lately I've turned into a Mac weenie! I can do all my
favorite *nix stuff using brew and I've got a much better UI compared to
Ubuntu.
Philistine.
I place Apple below M$oft.
Barbarian! Macs are beautiful.
One day whilst looking at tracing some kernel level interaction a few years
back, I stumbled upon the following. The author demands attention:
https://blogs.oracle.com/ahl/entry/mac_os_x_and_the
What do you consider worse for the average user. A vendor blocking
function or the likes of the Windows API being so powerful that a half
decent C/C++ programmer can use the debugging
hooks to insert malicious code into a running process. I used to think
the black hats were a bunch of genius coders bunkered down with a bunch
of crypto books and then I discovered they were
just using an API. Sigh!
<quote>
Wow. So Apple is explicitly preventing DTrace from examining or recording data
for processes which don't permit tracing. This is antithetical to the notion of
systemic tracing, antithetical to the goals of DTrace, and antithetical to the
spirit of open source.
</quote>
Shane ...
(I deleted my comments so this would pass corporate nanny-ware)
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