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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] dtrace for plan 9
Date: Mon,  9 Nov 2009 16:46:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10911091646o305d2ab2g664aa719e5b9a0e9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091110003356.GW19125@gradx.cs.jhu.edu>

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:07:22AM +0000, dave.l@mac.com wrote:
>>  yet too dangerous due to its possible unbounded runtime
>
> I keep hearing this brought up, but (while I am not an expert) AFAICT, the
> runtime for each D hook should be strictly bounded by the number of
> instructions lobbed in, since D does not (without root override, perhaps?)
> support backwards jumps.  Am I mistaken in my understanding of DTrace?

You are right. I don't think runtime is unbounded. At the same time,
I'm still trying to locate example scripts to get an idea of how
complex it is. I'm talking to people at sun to get a handle on the
question.

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-10  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<9ab217670911010852h46cc32a0k2e3ef99323287595@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-01 16:58 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-01 18:44   ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-11-03 15:30     ` Iruata Souza
2009-11-03 18:29       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-11-03 18:50         ` Iruata Souza
2009-11-07 10:45       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-11-07 17:44         ` ron minnich
2009-11-08 14:19         ` dave.l
2009-11-09  0:07           ` dave.l
2009-11-09  0:27             ` hiro
2009-11-09  0:56             ` ron minnich
2009-11-10  0:33             ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-11-10  0:46               ` ron minnich [this message]
2009-11-10  1:00                 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-11-10 20:21                   ` dave.l
2009-11-10 23:38                     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-11-13 23:47                       ` dave.l
2009-11-10  2:37                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-10  3:08                   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-11-10  4:20                     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-11-10  0:47               ` Roman Shaposhnik
     [not found] <<9ab217670911091908u25e0a23bk838bd67c460492ac@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-10  3:26 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-10  4:05   ` Devon H. O'Dell
     [not found] <<13426df10911081656q75a7b5aawd01dc9df71beca08@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-09 14:28 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-09 15:45   ` ron minnich
2009-11-09 16:01     ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <<Pine.BSI.4.64.0911011858540.4700@malasada.lava.net>
2009-11-02  5:03 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-02 15:59   ` David Leimbach
     [not found] <<4AEDB3DD.2010205@maht0x0r.net>
2009-11-01 16:19 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-01 16:52   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-11-01 17:19     ` ron minnich
     [not found] <<e763acc10910312200k4fe66aa8q557dcfe3a1d73ff3@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-01 13:25 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-01 16:14   ` matt
2009-11-02  4:59   ` Tim Newsham
     [not found] <<13426df10910271720t7679d169k84fb7d4b9a9cefc5@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-28  1:49 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-28  2:23   ` ron minnich
2009-10-28  2:38     ` Jeff Sickel
2009-11-01  3:01       ` dave.l
2009-11-01  3:26         ` ron minnich
2009-11-01  5:00           ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-10-28  0:20 ron minnich
2009-10-28  0:52 ` Devon H. O'Dell

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