Advanced and improved absolute paths decoding

[Philippe Ombredanne]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon 03 Mar 2014 10:26:22 Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
>> or possibly (not sure which form I like best) using a more compact
>> entirely and positional list of lists:
>> [
>>     "open",
>>     "-1",
>>    [
>>         "/usr/lib/locale/UTF-8/LC_CTYPE",
>>         "O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC"
>>     ]
>> ]
>
> that's a good way to not be future-proof.  considering you're already
> serializing to json, adding a few extra fields to keep things sane isn't
> really going to hurt.

Good point. So let's go with explicit field names, except for things
like "call_one" "call_two" that really do not make sense.
i.e. the top level structure should likely be a list of calls.

> if performance is an issue, that's where a binary output format would come in
> rather than making the json so terse as to be a pita to maintain.  especially
> considering the point is to make an interface that other tools can build on
> top of sanely, and breaking the json output straight up isn't useful.
>
> although quibbling over the exact output format doesn't really matter to the
> internal design aspects (which is the majority of the work is going to be
> anyways).  the strace code base would have a framework to call an output
> module and that would take care of the exact output details.

It is the goal indeed!

-- 
Philippe Ombredanne