Is Oracle obligated to provide the source code of Dtrace for Linux?

From: Ramon F Herrera <ramon_at_conexus.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 22:20:33 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <9250e1ee-5d1b-466a-aa0c-cd3f3a4dddef_at_c18g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>



Some people claim that 2 features alone justify the selection of Solaris as a server OS for implementing rock solid, high performance, enterprise class systems:
  • DTrace
  • ZFS
It is far from trivial porting DTrace to an OS, since it is very specific and lives in kernel space. It comes with Solaris and the Mac OS. Apparently, Oracle is working on a Dtrace port for Linux. Will it be available for the rest of Linuxes?

-Ramon Received on Thu Nov 10 2011 - 00:20:33 CST

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