Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:24:22 -0800 From: "Tiffany Snyder" <tiffany.snyder@gmail.com> To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Harrison Grundy <astrodog@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Will these new features make it into 7.0? Message-ID: <b63e753b0703312224m6db537e9qb97202b0a2aa7ec3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <460F3015.5020308@mac.com> References: <20070329215652.GD1524@roadrunner.q.local> <20070330192406.GA17536@xor.obsecurity.org> <b63e753b0703311954w443fe8a1x47515a1db33d4b3d@mail.gmail.com> <460F27B0.6040100@gmail.com> <460F3015.5020308@mac.com>
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http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27426&tstart=0 On 3/31/07, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > Harrison Grundy wrote: > > Tiffany Snyder wrote: > >> Kris, > >> would you be able to elaborate more on why DTrace has ben > >> suspended due to non-technical reasons - basically what the issue? I > >> seen a few from -current offering to help. I just saw another email on > >> this very topic on the OpenSolaris dtrace mailing list. > >> > >> Tiffany. > >> > > As I understand it, its an issue with some of Sun's header files, and > > the CDDL. > > > > I'm working on a clean re-implimentation of these, but there's currently > > no ETA on when this will be accomplished, or even if this will be > > sufficent. > > Has anyone asked Sun whether they would dual-license the needed header files > under a BSD-friendly license? Or whether they would publish the APIs via an > RFC so that you could easily re-implement against that as a published spec? > Sun's released lots of things like XDR and NFS via RFCs, so it's at least not > unprecedented. :-) > > Anyone know Casper Dik well? > > -- > -Chuck >
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