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Date:   Wed, 9 Dec 2020 09:42:41 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] tracing: Update synth command errors
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On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:51:14 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> 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