X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?p=ctf.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=common-trace-format-specification.txt;h=9cd39ded0b898159da9672b4262014b0b924ee88;hp=d0636cfba4dc7987e6cccd6a7847d798d309cc79;hb=5ca7e14b61ad50f565d6fd31ba213410897c25ca;hpb=4dfca05b5dd7e266fd9fe48921382a222efbdd7c diff --git a/common-trace-format-specification.txt b/common-trace-format-specification.txt index d0636cf..9cd39de 100644 --- a/common-trace-format-specification.txt +++ b/common-trace-format-specification.txt @@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ The final output of the trace, after its generation and optional transport over the network, is expected to be either on permanent or temporary storage in a virtual file system. Because each event stream is appended to while a trace is being recorded, each is associated with a separate file for output. Therefore, -a stored trace can be represented as a directory containing one file per stream. +a stored trace can be represented as a directory containing zero, one or +more files per stream. Meta-data description associated with the trace contains information on trace event types expressed in the Trace Stream Description Language @@ -1026,8 +1027,9 @@ event context to define a variant referring to the "id" field of the event header as selector. The target dynamic scope must be specified explicitly when referring to -a field outside of the local static scope. The dynamic scope prefixes -are thus: +a field outside of the local static scope (a local static scope contains +all fields present within the same scope, at the same nesting level). +The dynamic scope prefixes are thus: - Trace Packet Header: , - Stream Packet Context: ,