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From: jonathan.rajotte-julien@efficios.com (Jonathan Rajotte-Julien)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 10:19:07 -0400
Subject: [lttng-dev] lttng trace" Read trace under windows
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On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 05:40:51AM +0300, Zvi Vered wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> Thank you very much for your repy.
> 
> Each trace contains also idx files (channel0_0.idx ... channel0_7.idx).
> Are those also CTF files ?

The index files are not part of the 1.8 spec. They are utility files for the
reader. These files are optionals.

Please see src/common/index/ [1] in the lttng-tools tree if you want do
dig further.

[1] https://github.com/lttng/lttng-tools/blob/master/src/common/index

> 
> Is "metadata" a CTF file also ?

https://diamon.org/ctf/#spec7.1

It represent a metadata stream.

Cheers

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Jonathan Rajotte-Julien
EfficiOS