From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <26d555a3be217d351aa99ba17be45d45@quanstro.net> To: 9fans@9fans.net From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:54:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] crosstool fails on gentoo Topicbox-Message-UUID: b3012298-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > just like many people, I have made good use of dtrace myself. but the > need for a tool like that seems to me one more evidence of the trend > in talk about in your first post. in the pile of layers one has to dig > to find/fix/rework something, sometimes dtrace seems like the better - > or even the only one at hand - thing to deal with it. > put short: dtrace-like tools are good but, in general, having the need > for it is not. it's abstractions, all the way down. at least until mack burps. he always does. - erik