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Blog/sysadmin/SystemProgrammerDanger. My little issue the other day with DTrace makes a nice illustration of a variant of programmer laziness.

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As I sort of alluded to in the entry, although DTrace's function tracing limitation is documented, I didn't actually find it by reading the documentation. Instead I found it the hard and indirect way, by being a system programmer. When I ran into a kernel function that DTrace couldn't trace, I wound up:

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