Re: XML output.

[John L. <le...@mo...>]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:54:05AM -0600, Rob Fowler wrote:

> Used "by hand" by an ordinary user, a session might look like:
>   1> mkdir /scratch/myrun
>   2> sudo opcontrol --session-dir=/scratch/myrun --start --event= ...
>   3> myprogram  <myprogram's args>
>   4> sudo opcontrol --shutdown
>   5> opreport --session-dir=/scratch/myrun
>   6> ophpctoolkit --session-dir=/scratch/myrun/  -o myworkingfile
>   7> hpcprof -p myprogram myworkingfile >myprogram.pxml
>   8> hpcprof -p vmlinux myworkingfile >vmlinux.pxml
>   9> hpcprof -p some_program_myprogram_spawned myworkingfile >foo.pxml
>   8>  ... and the rest of the hpctoolkit stuff.

This is just horribly complicated. Do you ever intend to change OProfile
to produce XML directly?

Also, you were talking some time ago about submitting back the
"--session-dir" patch. Are you still going to do that?

regards
john