Re: [RFC PATCH 2/7] perf: add pipe-specific header read/write andevent processing code

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:14:57AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker escreveu:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:05:24AM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> >  
> > +int perf_header__write_pipe(struct perf_header *self, int fd)
> > +{
> > +	struct perf_file_header_pipe f_header;
> > +	int err;
> > +
> > +	f_header = (struct perf_file_header_pipe){
> > +		.magic	   = PERF_MAGIC,
> > +		.size	   = sizeof(f_header),
> > +	};

> I actually wonder why you bother with a header in the pipe mode,
> since it only contains MAGIC and its size.

Because he wants to detect endianness  :-)

- ARnaldo
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