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Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 12:59:46 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] perf: perf record sets inherit by default
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Em Tue, May 11, 2010 at 05:55:44PM +0200, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 12:50 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >
> >> Nope, see above.
> >
> > Ah, -p/-t might make sense to default to inherit off indeed.
> >
> >
> I would rather think that -p would inherit but not -t.
> If I attach to a multi-threaded app with -p, I'd like all threads monitored.
> But if I use -t to point to a specific thread within a process, then most
> likely I care only about that thread.

Ok, so fine tuning of the inherit flag is needed, i.e. we need both a
--inherit and a --no-inherit, well, good thing is that I think that the
option parsing stuff we, erm, inherited from git does just that, lemme
check how it works in this case more precisely...

- Arnaldo