* Pekka Paalanen (pq@iki.fi) wrote:
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> > * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > When trying to figure out what was going on with the sched tracer
> > > "tracing_enabled" file (sched-devel.git tree), I fell on this strange
> > > behavior :
> > > 
> > > echo 1>tracing_enabled seems _not_ to send 1 to the tracing_ctrl_write
> 
> Wait a minute, are you literally running the command:
> echo 1>tracing_enabled
> 
> If you are, you just echoed only a newline and directed stdout, stream 1,
> to the file. No? :-)
> 
> Could you try with a space:
> echo 1 > tracing_enabled
> 
> > > callback. However, sending garbage, e.g. echo s> tracing_enabled,
> > > correctly sends the 's' character down the chain. echo 0>tracing_enabled
> > > sometimes results in the callback not even being called.
> 
> Stream 0 is stdin, so... not sure what this would do. Probably nothing,
> just like you experienced.
> 

*duh*. Ok. That wasn't smart. You spotted the problem. Thanks a lot :)

Mathieu

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> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> Pekka Paalanen
> http://www.iki.fi/pq/

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