Commit 82b55c97 authored by Peter Eisentraut's avatar Peter Eisentraut

doc: Update DTrace information

The old web site link no longer worked, and some information was
outdated.
parent d334b337
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</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</>.
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