On Sat, Dec 30 2006, Ming Zhang wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 10:49 -0500, Ming Zhang wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > > 
> > > That's fine with me, I'm not suggesting an elaborate scheme. I just want
> > > to prevent people accidentally doin foo.blktrace.0 from missing events
> > > from CPUs 1...N. So:
> > > 
> > > * - for stdin
> > > 
> > > * 'x' is a fifo, open that.
> > > 
> > > * foo and foo.blktrace.[0...N] exists, open foo.blktrace.[0...N]
> > > 
> > > Up until now, that is no change from what blkparse currently does, I'm
> > > just describing it. So the new rule I'm proposing is:
> > > 
> > > * foo.blktrace.0 given, and foo.blktrace.[1...N] exists, print a warning
> > >   and add those files.
> > > 
> > > If someone really wants to use only that file (obscure case, I cannot
> > > imagine a real world scenario where that is the case. The weird HT
> > > experimentation case that Seelam gave is easy - just delete the damn
> > > file, it wont even be valid anymore since the first file is
> > > overwritten), then they can use '-' as input and cat the file.
> > > 
> > 
> > no warning is given. add silently for 4th.
> 
> any comment about this patch?

It looks good, just did not have a chance to test it yet. Will do so and
integrate, thanks!

-- 
Jens Axboe

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