On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 01:05:45PM +0100, Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote: > On 7 November 2014 09:21, Masami Hiramatsu > <masami.hiramatsu...@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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
