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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: DTrace home page down
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:30:38 -0400
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Since OpenSolaris was yanked from the net, the DTrace link in our
documentation points to approximately nowhere.  I propose the attached
patch with a link to Wikipedia instead (for lack for strong
alternatives), and a few other updates.



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  [text/x-patch] dtrace-doc.patch (1.2K, 2-dtrace-doc.patch)
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index c22f16a..b37b6c3 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -1814,14 +1814,12 @@ <title>Dynamic Tracing</title>
   </para>
 
   <para>
-   Currently, only the
-   <ulink url="http://opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/">DTrace</ulink>
-   utility is supported, which is available
-   on OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, and Mac OS X Leopard. It is expected that
-   DTrace will be available in the future on FreeBSD and possibly other
-   operating systems.  The
+   Currently, the
+   <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace">DTrace</ulink>
+   utility is supported, which, at the time of this writing, is available
+   on Solaris, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Oracle Linux.  The
    <ulink url="http://sourceware.org/systemtap/">SystemTap</ulink> project
-   for Linux also provides a DTrace equivalent.  Supporting other dynamic
+   for Linux provides a DTrace equivalent and can also be used.  Supporting other dynamic
    tracing utilities is theoretically possible by changing the definitions for
    the macros in <filename>src/include/utils/probes.h</>.
   </para>

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