[dtrace-discuss] AIX: dtrace?

Bryan Cantrill
Wed, 23 May 2007 08:02:47 -0000

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:52:34AM +0200, Robert Milkowski
wrote:
> Hello dtrace-discuss,
>
> http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/6/preview.html
> "Dynamic tracing AIX 6 provides a new dynamic tracing capability that
can simplify
> debugging complex system or application code. This dynamic tracing
> facility will be introduced via a new tracing command, probevue,
> that allows a developer or system administrator to dynamically insert
> trace breakpoints in existing code without having to recompile the
code."
>
>
> dtrace like?

I think it''s safe to say that IBM is ignoring my suggestion:

  http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/dtrace_on_aix

As for "probevue", we know very little about it (googling for
"probevue"
current yields three hits:  one is the link you quoted, one is some
blog entry saying that this "sure as hell sounds like DTrace" and the
last is in Russian).  From the little that we do know, it seems unlikely
to be a holistic DTrace-like solution, but we''ll see...

	- Bryan

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