Re: dtrace

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: eller.helmut@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  pipcet@protonmail.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:29:14 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Just trying to have some fun here :-).
> >
> > For yet more fun, did you consider writing an Emacs module, and then
> > process the dtrace data in Emacs Lisp?
> 
> Yes, I did, briefly, or something using a ffi. But I think both have the
> same problem that consuming DTrace requires root privileges, which I
> don't want to grant to Emacs.

Then how does the Python front-end do this without needing root
privileges?  If that's because it uses the libdtrace library, then so
could your module.  Or what am I missing?