[lttng-dev] [PATCH lttng-tools] Fix: Some corrections to the lttng man page

[Jérémie Galarneau]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Thibault, Daniel <
Daniel.Thibault at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:

> -----Message d'origine-----
> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:08:47 -0400
> From: J?r?mie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau at efficios.com>
>
> > diff --git a/doc/man/lttng.1 b/doc/man/lttng.1
> > [...]
> > +All user-space applications instrumented with lttng-ust(3) will
> > automatically register to the session daemon. This feature gives you the
> > ability to list available traceable applications and tracepoints on a
> per user
> > basis. (See \fBlist\fP command).
>
>    Is this a statement of intent?  LTTng 2.3.0's list command identifies
> user-space events by trace provider name, event name, and process ID, but
> not by user ID (in fact it doesn't even yet filter the kernel events out
> when one asks for 'list -u session'; see bug #654).  And there is as yet no
> way to filter the 'lttng list' output by user ID (an optional argument for
> the -u option could do the trick).
>
>
I didn't change the meaning of the original sentence. It just means that
"lttng list" will output the events registered to the user's corresponding
session daemon. Perhaps you can suggest a better phrasing?

Jérémie



>    Of course, listing available tracepoints is automatically per-user when
> using a local session daemon.  But if you're a member of the 'tracing'
> group, you'll deal exclusively with the root daemon and won't have that
> choice.
>
> Daniel U. Thibault
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