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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, tools: Stop perf stat -p when profiled process exits v3
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> The is_alive function can be used by perf-top, perf-stat and perf-record 
> to know that its target has died so it can stop monitoring.
 
Sorry that's to complicated and overengineered for me.
My simple patch works for me at least. It's not solving world hunger,
but it wasn't intended to do that.

-Andi
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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.