dtrace discuss - Aug 2011 - dtrace-discuss Digest, Vol 76, Issue 9

> You say the Solaris 10 machine is "old". How up-to-date is it
> (/etc/release) and how well patched? There have been many fixes in the
> history of Solaris 10, not least to its network stack. It would be a
> shame to invest a lot of effort in finding a bug that may have already
> been fixed. The patch database is worth a trawl, but do bear in mind
> that many bugs get fixed without be explicitly called out in bug reports.
Agreed, but *my* main interest in this is to learn some more about
how to look at things like this.