Re: [hatari-devel] fopen traces

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 06/04/2015 21:30, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On maanantai 06 huhtikuu 2015, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> > I agree with thomas, it's not about the option being commonly used or
> > not , but since it's part of gemdos it would be better to prefix with
> > gemdos_ , makes it easier to undestand IMO when you type "--trace help"
> > (and that's not a lot of extra letters to type :) )
>
> IMHO you have it backwards. :-)
>
> Surely "files" tells more about the intended purpose.
>
> "I wonder whether file accesses are a problem for the program"
> -> "hm, here seems to be option to trace files"
>
> vs.
>
> "why there's gemdos_fopen in addition to gemdos trace?"
>
>
> After user uses the option, he sees that it's file accesses
> are done through GEMDOS (as trace output tells that), if he
> didn't know it beforehand.

problem is that "files" looks to generic to me. Does it traces fopen, 
fseek, fclose, fsnext, fread, frwite, ... ? At the moment not, and 
that's what I would expect from an option that says it traces files : to 
trace all kind of files' operations, not just fopen.

Nicolas