From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:41:51 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Describe text-only metadata header: /* TSDL */ X-Git-Tag: v1.8~18 X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?p=ctf.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b4d35ebc2a93f67d67f3327eec63cc221ef91f3 Describe text-only metadata header: /* TSDL */ Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers --- diff --git a/common-trace-format-specification.txt b/common-trace-format-specification.txt index 8d5cc92..19194c8 100644 --- a/common-trace-format-specification.txt +++ b/common-trace-format-specification.txt @@ -933,7 +933,14 @@ CTF stream packet facilities (checksumming, compression, encryption, network-readiness) for meta-data stream generated and transported by a tracer. -The text-only meta-data file is a plain text TSDL description. +The text-only meta-data file is a plain-text TSDL description. This file +must begin with the following characters to identify the file as a CTF +TSDL text-based metadata file: + +/* TSDL */ + +These characters allow automated discovery of file type. They are +interpreted as a comment by the TSDL metadata parser. The packet-based meta-data is made of "meta-data packets", which each start with a meta-data packet header. The packet-based meta-data