[lttng-dev] Mandatory name for some field in a CTF trace

[Alexandre Montplaisir]

On 13-08-05 03:48 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Yannick Brosseau (yannick.brosseau at gmail.com) wrote:
> [...]
>> Or
>> should we write a second spec on the side for that kind of information?
>> The question we want to answer is "What do I need to put in a CTF file
>> to make it possible for a viewer to display it?"
> Beware though: a viewer could view a trace that lacks event ID and
> timestamp fields entirely. It would be limited to a single even type,
> and timestamp would always appear as 0.

On a related note, here's how we dealt with it in TMF:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=387039

Cheers,
Alex