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Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:26:07 -0600
From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
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To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] perf record: Remove -A option
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On 6/3/13 12:06 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> hi,
> the -A option (append data to the output file) for record
> command is broken, probably for some time now.
>
> Anyone interested in this functionality? As we discussed
> this with Arnaldo he and I would vote for removal.
>
> thoughts?

Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>

I ran a bisect on this problem a year ago:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1206.3/00990.html

"Append has been broken for a long time (v2.6.36 last working version)."

David
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