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Date: Mon,  9 Nov 2009 19:33:56 -0500
From: Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] dtrace for plan 9
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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?
--nwf;

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