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Stripping kernel/uboot source to 10% for code reading

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Re: Stripping kernel/uboot source to 10% for code reading

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I do love me some strace. It's one of those commands I talk about when asked why I prefer Linux as a developer/hacker.

Do you mean you prefer Linux over Windows? If so, then watch this talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmA48fILq8 Now you will prefer Solaris/BSD to Linux :)

Impressive. I want to use DTrace on Linux. And it seems that in the meantime it is available on Linux http://liberumvir.com/2012/06/01/zfs-and-dtrace-running-on-u...

Re: Stripping kernel/uboot source to 10% for code reading

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I do love me some strace. It's one of those commands I talk about when asked why I prefer Linux as a developer/hacker.

Do you mean you prefer Linux over Windows? If so, then watch this talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmA48fILq8 Now you will prefer Solaris/BSD to Linux :)

That was a great talk, too great for just an upvote. Thanks!

To others considering watching it, the speaker is willing to indulge himself in a bit of self-absorbed wankery, but he gets most of that out of the way in the first 10 minutes, and gets down to the useful business of "here's an example problem, and here's a solution".

Re: Stripping kernel/uboot source to 10% for code reading

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> git ls-tree HEAD -r |pn 4|xargs touch What's pn? I've never heard of it, I don't have it, and simple searches don't tell me anything about it. It looks like it might be a simple replacement for awk argument parsing, but I'm unsure...

Sorry, and you guessed right, `pn N` is just my shorthand wrapper for `awk '{print $N}'`.

Re: Stripping kernel/uboot source to 10% for code reading

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> git ls-tree HEAD -r |pn 4|xargs touch What's pn? I've never heard of it, I don't have it, and simple searches don't tell me anything about it. It looks like it might be a simple replacement for awk argument parsing, but I'm unsure...

I think it's along the lines of:: cut -d' ' -F 4 That said, I'd probably try this: git ls-tree HEAD -r | sed 's/[[:space:]]\+/ /g' | cut -d' ' -f 4 Edit: Apparently there is a shorter way of that sed sequence, which brings us to: git ls-tree HEAD -r | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f 4

Yes, there is more than one way to do it:-) Had I read the git ls-tree manpage more patiently, I should have wrote:

    git ls-tree HEAD -r --name-only

Re: Stripping kernel/uboot source to 10% for code reading

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> touch all source code files (this step is mandatory, or else the atime won't update correctly, I don't know why, but guess it's an optimization). On a filesystem mounted with the "relatime" option, it's necessary to touch each file so that the next access is guaranteed to bump the atime. It used to be common to update the access time every time a file was accessed. That turned every read into a read+write, which is…

Thanks for the info, it must be the relatime that I saw this behavior. Were it noatime, this idea won't have worked at all (I think I have seen noatime used on embedded devices).
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