On 22-Jan-08, at 9:52 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > An idea from a hallway discussion after last week's > KDE-on-OpenSolaris presentation: > > Has anyone given consideration to adding a dtrace provider to > the D-Bus IPC mechanism that GNOME, KDE, and HAL use? > > Given the increasing number of hardware state updates being > communicated over the bus (it's already used for removable > media mounts/unmounts and laptop battery state, and the > current power management cases in the ARC add more uses, > as will Xorg server 1.4 when we move to it), and the increasing > use in both the GNOME & KDE desktops, it would seem like a useful > source of events for triggering dtrace probes.
Hmm.. that /IS/ a good idea. I've thus far been hacking dtrace in to stdcxx, but DBus might be a better target.
