macOS Sonoma 14.4 removes critical functions from the fileproviderctl command

Re:macOS Sonoma 14.4 removes critical functions from the fil... by viraptor on Sunday February 04, 2024 @04:35PM (#39254724)

I think Apple got themselves in that position. Features many people relied on did go away lots of times before. Basic things are broken and Apple doesn't care. (dtrace is broken in latest 2 major versions of the system, same for system settings search) At this point, if some functionality disappears, it's not totally unreasonable to expect that it's Apple being Apple.

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Re:macOS Sonoma 14.4 removes critical functions from the fil... by pjmlp on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:55AM (#39258849)

Most likely because that isn't the main tracing tool for quite some time now, rather Instruments.

Creating Custom Instruments - WWDC 2018

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/410/

Yes, there isn't feature parity per se with DTrace, since when it was an impediment for Apple to replace some set of APIs or tooling?

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Re:macOS Sonoma 14.4 removes critical functions from the fil... by viraptor on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:08AM (#39259362)

I'd be less annoyed about this one if they just removed dtrace if they don't want to fix it and replaced it with "echo 'use Instruments'". But that's not the case - dtrace will currently crash your whole system if you try to use it on M2/M3. They also acknowledged it's a bug months ago.

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