Integrate performance profiling in another application

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Your second question is not a technical one, so I am unable to provide an answer. You may wish to discuss it with your legal counsel.

Hi @DTS Engineer , thanks for your response. I have created the Feedback Assistance request too. This is the number FB13806178.

Hi @DTS Engineer , I had one more query. Can we intergrate the trace command line utility in our application to do the profiling at customer side, till the time we get Xcode Instruments as separate executable? Something like this in terminal.```

sudo trace record test1.atrc --plan profile --compress

Hi @DTS Engineer ,

We're using these commands:

trace record for generating system profiles osascript for pop-ups to get user’s machine password for admin privileges notifyutil to start/stop profiling scripts look like this:

osascript -e 'do shell script "trace record test.atrc --plan profile --compress --end-after-duration 100s --end-on-notification end_profiling" with administrator privileges'

// To generate .atrc file[which can be consumed by X-Code Instruments]

osascript -e 'do shell script "notifyutil -p end_profiling"'

These commands satisfy all our requirements. Now, we also want to know about the legal implications. Can we include these scripts inside our application and legally use them on customer machines to get profiling information and sudo password to run the trace tool?