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.
We did talk about it briefly on #kde-solaris on freenode a couple weeks ago. I know John Sonnenschein is working on dtrace probes for the Apache Standard C++ Library. D-Bus/HAL DTrace probes would be a very interesting project under the Desktop umbrella methinks. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
