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| author | John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com> | 2006-11-08 23:06:03 +0000 |
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| committer | John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com> | 2006-11-08 23:06:03 +0000 |
| commit | b6905b75b6ec77400b25fe340852626871649bd3 (patch) | |
| tree | db3a949022d88341105a817aca692adeb2961759 | |
| parent | f11e136144228b5ca5a04d0cf84805b12a43d530 (diff) | |
| download | dbus-b6905b75b6ec77400b25fe340852626871649bd3.tar.gz | |
* tools/dbus-monitor.1: update the manpage for dbus-monitor
(Patch from Olli Salli <olli dot salli at collabora dot co dot uk>)
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/dbus-monitor.1 | 17 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2006-11-08 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com> + * tools/dbus-monitor.1: update the manpage for dbus-monitor + (Patch from Olli Salli <olli dot salli at collabora dot co dot uk>) + +2006-11-08 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com> + * AUTHORS: Update with all people listed in the ChangeLog 2006-11-08 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com> diff --git a/tools/dbus-monitor.1 b/tools/dbus-monitor.1 index faeaa5e0..5dea4ac8 100644 --- a/tools/dbus-monitor.1 +++ b/tools/dbus-monitor.1 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dbus-monitor \- debug probe to print message bus messages .SH SYNOPSIS .PP .B dbus-monitor -[\-\-system | \-\-session] +[\-\-system | \-\-session] [\-\-profile | \-\-monitor] [watch expressions] .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ monitor the system or session buses respectively. If neither is specified, \fIdbus-monitor\fP monitors the session bus. .PP +\fIdbus-monitor\fP has two different output modes, the 'classic'-style +monitoring mode and profiling mode. The profiling format is a compact +format with a single line per message and microsecond-resolution timing +information. The \-\-profile and \-\-monitor options select the profiling +and monitoring output format respectively. If neither is specified, +\fIdbus-monitor\fP uses the monitoring output format. + +.PP In order to get \fIdbus-monitor\fP to see the messages you are interested in, you should specify a set of watch expressions as you would expect to be passed to the \fIdbus_bus_add_watch\fP function. @@ -42,6 +50,12 @@ Monitor the system message bus. .TP .I "--session" Monitor the session message bus. (This is the default.) +.TP +.I "--profile" +Use the profiling output format. +.TP +.I "--monitor" +Use the monitoring output format. (This is the default.) .SH EXAMPLE Here is an example of using dbus-monitor to watch for the gnome typing @@ -54,6 +68,7 @@ monitor to say things .SH AUTHOR dbus-monitor was written by Philip Blundell. +The profiling output mode was added by Olli Salli. .SH BUGS Please send bug reports to the D-Bus mailing list or bug tracker, |