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 11:12:04 +0100
> 
> 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.

Then dtrace will always need root privileges.

If we don't want to grant root privileges to Emacs, how about doing
granting them to a separate sub-process, also running Emacs, perhaps
via the async package?