On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Abhishek Tiwari <erabhishektiwar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 5:54 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <l...@altlinux.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:14:29PM +0530, Abhishek Tiwari wrote: >> [...] >>> Is it fine to group statfs+ statfs64+ fstatfs + fstatfs64 + ustat as >>> %statfs or it should be (statfs+statfs64 + ustat) and >>> (fstatfs+ftsatfs64) i.e. two different classes ? >> >> Well, I don't have a ready answer to this question. >> >> From one side, three narrow classes (%statfs == statfs+statfs64, >> %fstatfs == fstatfs+fstatfs64, and ustat itself) would be a finer >> instrument than a single wide class. I'm not sure whether narrow statfs >> classes will be of any practical use, though. If we've choosen this >> approach, we could use, say, %allstatfs as a name for the wide class. >> >> From another side, a single wide class is simpler to use. >> However, once %statfs is taken for the wide class, it wouldn't be easy to >> find a good alternative name if someday we decide to create narrow >> classes. >> >> Does anybody else have an opinion on this? >> >> >> -- >> ldv >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Strace-devel mailing list >> Strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel >> > > As I read in -e trace=%sched mailing list, the vision is to create > classes that can support a particular kind of syscall across different > versions/flavours of linux, so in my opinion going with the narrower > class would help better to debug while it will create a lot of classes > to remember.
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