Re: pp spec

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

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:59:47AM +0000, Philippe Elie wrote:

> $SAMPLES_DIR/session/root/path/to/binary/event.count.unitmask.tgid.pid.cpu
> $SAMPLES_DIR/session/root/path/to/binary/dep/root/path/to/lib/event.count.unitmask.tgid.pid.cpu
> 
> We must think more about that.
> 
> 1) completion and globbing at shell level will work
> poorly. It will difficult to save only one samples
> filename or to send easily such file through mail, such
> file will lost the component part wich is meaningfull.
> Obviously user can specify the equivalent of -f -i
> to use it but..

A disadvantage but a relatively minor one.

> 2) is minor but we must at least obfsucate the /root
> marker: it's too easy to get ambiguities due to existing
> /root in the path name.

Erm, no, look again. If there's a "root" in the path, it will look like
:

$SAMPLES_DIR/session/root/root/blah/blah

There is no ambiguity. The only ambiguity is with "dep", and I deal with
that in the spec.

Having a directory per profile is just cleaner to handle. Especially
when it comes to the call-graph files.

regards
john