> Nah. I just thought, that this should be accessible to unprivileged user. Or 
> if not, then the error message should state that, not that there are no 
> probes matching :::entry...

The reason that no probes are available to unprivileged users is that even
trivial uses of DTrace can consume extensive system resources such as memory.
Initially, we wanted to take the conservative approach of disabling DTrace
for all but the root user by default. Now that we've built up some experience
with DTrace, it may be time to consider adding dtrace_proc to the default
privilege set, and making sure we have the necessary resource controls.

Adam

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Adam Leventhal, Fishworks                     http://blogs.sun.com/ahl
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