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. 

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