Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] tracing: Update synth command errors

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:51:14 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This makes sense. Anyway, what I considered were
> - synthetic_events interface doesn't provide syntax error reports
> - synthetic_events interface is not self-reproducive*.
> 
> *) I meant
> 
> $ cat synthetic_events > saved_events
> $ cat saved_events > synthetic_events
> 
>   should work. But this does *NOT* mean
> 
> $ cat user-input > synthetic_events
> $ cat synthetic_events > saved_events
> $ diff user-input saved_events # no diff
> 
> So input and output can be different, but the output can be input again.

Totally agree.

Thanks,

-- Steve