[KDE-India] Workout: Dynamically Tracing KDE4 applications with DTrace

[Manish Chakravarty]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Till Adam <till at kdab.net> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On Thursday 16 October 2008 20:48:32 Manish Chakravarty wrote:
>
>> I am planning to do a workout on  Dynamically Tracing KDE4
>> applications with DTrace
>>
>>
>> The env will be KDE4 on Solaris Express. The only other OS which has
>> DTrace as of now is OS X ( I think the FreeBSD guys are working on
>> porting it as well).
>> I'll write probes to dynamicaly instrument 1) QObject 2) KHTML library
>>
>> Mind you, once probes are written for a particular thing, a *running,
>> non-deug , ie release application can be instrumented at runtime using
>> DTrace*
>
> Very cool. Unfortunately I won't be able to attend this year, but I'd be very
> interested in any material from this session you can provide.
I'll send you whatever I can come up with!
>
> Rock on, guys!
>
> Till
>
> --
> Till Adam
> KDAB - platform independent software services
>



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