[Spice-devel] [RfC 3/4] server/red_worker: record to SPICE_WORKER_RECORD_FILENAME

[Alon Levy]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:35:06PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 04:49:44AM +0200, Alon Levy wrote:
> > if the environment variable in the title is set and can be
> > opened for writing a log of all display commands (no cursor
> > commands yet) and any QXLWorker calls (particularily primary
> > create and destroy) will be logged to that file, and possible
> > to replay using the replay utility introduced later.
> 
> I gave this a try, looking at the output, if the content of the file
> is meant to be human-readable in addition to be useful for the replayer,
> I think it would be nice to have timestsamps at the beginning of each line,
> and the binary data would be better in an hexdump-like format (though that
> makes things more complicated to replay).

there are timestamps - see the lines starting with "event".
yes, I wanted reading to be relatively efficient so no uuencoding or any rewriting of
binaries (I use cut -b -50 to view the human readable part, works pretty well, of course
binaries end up as multiple lines due to unencoded EOLs but it's not too bad).

> 
> Christophe