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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:18:49 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tool: more user-friendly errors from trace
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On 10/3/13 10:58 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 01:58:11PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra escreveu:
>> Currently, execution of 'perf trace' reports the following cryptic
>> message to the user:
>>
>> $ perf trace
>> Couldn't read the raw_syscalls tracepoints information!
>>
>> Now, it prints a detailed message:
>
> What about the one attached instead? It

Isnt' strerror(errno) preferred over sys_errlist[errno]?

David