Good point, I'd thought about the privilege issue, but forgot about dtrace's ability to drop events.
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Brian Nitz wrote: >> This looks interesting, I always wondered whether things such as >> gamin and libgtop should be implemented using dtrace libraries. > > Perhaps it would have been viable as a temporary solution until the real > API went into the kernel, but as a long term plan, it doesn't seem to be > a good idea since DTrace is designed to drop events to prevent system > performance issues, and requires more privilege than you may want your > file indexer to have. >
