Re: dtrace

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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?

Python faces the same problem. If it's just some .py using libdtrace,
one would have to run that with sudo. If it's used in a Jupyter
notebook, one would have to arrange for a root login, which I think is
supported, judging from what Gemini told me, but that's still an open
question for me.