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A comment on Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?.

Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by AresMinos on Friday March 31, 2017 @03:48PM (#14007458)
-FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

-HEADLINE: DTrace

-DESCRIPTION: Dedicate some of your development time to port DTrace from FreeBSD to Ubuntu.

-ROLE: CEO, Software Developer

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by dustinkirkland on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:18PM (#14037765)
Ah, yes, I've heard this one a few times. Have you tried the BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) and bcc tools? These are shipping now with 16.04. While it's not dtrace, it's certainly in the same family of deep inspection of a running system...
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by kasabali on Saturday April 01, 2017 @02:07PM (#14013283)
https://github.com/dtrace4linux/linux/

I have no idea how well it works, though

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