Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:50:21 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] perf-cache command interface design |
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 01:05:45PM +0100, Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote: > On 7 November 2014 09:21, Masami Hiramatsu > <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> wrote: > > > File Format > > =========== > > All the cache files are placed under ~/.debug/ by default. > > The paths of buildid cache of binary/symbols are not changed. > > > > The SDT/probe caches are placed under the ~/.debug/.probes/path/to/bin/bu/ildid > > and that is linked to ~/.debug/.probes/.buildid/bu/ildid > > # To avoid conflict with files under /probes/*, I picked up .probes/. > > A little bit late: but why ~/.debug? Why not $XDG_CACHE_HOME/perf/ as > the root for all perf related files? debug is not unique nor is it sufficient > to meet file hierarchy: man file-hierarchy(8)
# env | grep XDG | wc -l 0
Which renders it useless crap in my book.
I agree on the .debug name being somewhat generic, also, it would be: man 8 file-hierarchy, but that too fails:
$ man file-hierarchy No manual entry for file-hierarchy
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