Bug#632923: linux-tools-2.6.39: perf tries to read ./config, fails if it is not a perf config file
Package: linux-tools-2.6.39
Version: 2.6.39-3
Severity: normal
Hello,
When running perf, it looks for a config file in /etc/perfconfig,
~/.perfconfig, and ./config (according to strace). If ./config is not a
perf configuration, it fails (or possibly does unexpected things). Since
"config" is a quite generic name (I have 175 files with that name on my
system) it would be nice if this is changed to e.g. ./.perfconfig.
Best regards,
Christian Ohm
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.39 depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libelf1 0.152-1 library to read and write ELF file
ii libnewt0.52 0.52.11-2.1 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - tex
ii libperl5.12 5.12.4-1 shared Perl library
ii libpython2.6 2.6.7-2 Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii libslang2 2.2.4-2 S-Lang programming library - runti
ii perl 5.12.4-1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii python 2.6.6-14 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-support 1.0.14 automated rebuilding support for P
Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.39 recommends:
ii linux-base 3.3 Linux image base package
Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.39 suggests:
pn linux-doc-2.6.39 <none> (no description available)
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