On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 04:45 +0200, Christian Ohm wrote: > 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. This indeed seems like a misfeature. Is perf supposed to be invoked in directories dedicated to its use? If not, why should it expect a generically-named file to belong to it? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg
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