I would be happy to see these files go away if no one is using them... > On Mar 9, 2016, at 2:32 PM, Adrian McCarthy via lldb-dev > <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > The test traces directory tends to accumulate thousands and thousands of > TestStarted-XXX and TestFinished-XXX files. What purpose do they serve? > > I assume it's for trying to figure out why something went wrong. If you have > a TestStarted-123 without a corresponding TestFinished-123, then you can know > that a test crashes and by looking inside the file, you can see which test > and what the command was. > > If that's the case, then wouldn't it be cleaner to delete the TestStarted > file when the test finishes rather than writing a second file? Then you can > simply search for TestStarted files to see the ones that didn't finish > successfully without the noise of thousands of others that did. > > I suppose it's also possible that some other process is looking at these > files in order to collect statistics. Is there such a beast and is it > valuable? > > Adrian. > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org > http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
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