Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:16:38 -0500 | | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] tracing: add event trace infrastructure |
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* Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:08:56 -0500 (EST) Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > > > Gad, what a lot of stuff. > > > > > > Use strncpy_from_user()? > > > > > > Use strstrip()? > > > > > > Why do we care about leading and trailing whitespace - user error! > > > > This is because i want: > > > > cat available_events > set_event > > > > to work. > > :( > > Why on earth do we keep on putting all these pretty-printers and > pretty-parsers into the kernel? I mean, how hard is it for userspace > to read a text file, do some basic substitutions and print it out again? >
... or to read a binary buffer and format it in text, which is much more efficient... :) If that's the kind of feature you are looking for, you will probably like this aspect of the LTTng patchset. I should really, really post it soon.
Mathieu
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