Since OpenSolaris was yanked from the net, the DTrace link in our documentation points to approximately nowhere. I propose the attached patch with a link to Wikipedia instead (for lack for strong alternatives), and a few other updates.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml index c22f16a..b37b6c3 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml @@ -1814,14 +1814,12 @@ <title>Dynamic Tracing</title> </para> <para> - Currently, only the - <ulink url="http://opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/";>DTrace</ulink> - utility is supported, which is available - on OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, and Mac OS X Leopard. It is expected that - DTrace will be available in the future on FreeBSD and possibly other - operating systems. The + Currently, the + <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace";>DTrace</ulink> + utility is supported, which, at the time of this writing, is available + on Solaris, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Oracle Linux. The <ulink url="http://sourceware.org/systemtap/";>SystemTap</ulink> project - for Linux also provides a DTrace equivalent. Supporting other dynamic + for Linux provides a DTrace equivalent and can also be used. Supporting other dynamic tracing utilities is theoretically possible by changing the definitions for the macros in <filename>src/include/utils/probes.h</>. </para>
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