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Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:44:09AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Also, it would be really great if you could write probes in regular C,
> some pseudo C language just messes up my mind.

You can write probes in plain C, in fact I do this all the time.  what's
missing is a nice and easy to use channel to get the traces to userspace
and interpret them, and helper for poking at kernel data structures.
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