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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: John Ousterhout <ouster@cs.stanford.edu>
Cc: "Van Haaren, Harry" <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>, "Ananyev,
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: avoid unnecessary conflicts over
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2016-10-13 09:20, John Ousterhout:
> Hi Harry,
> 
> But, given the existence of the --file-prefix option, isn't it already
> unsafe for Collectd to check only for .rte_config? If it's important for
> other programs to be able to find the config files, it seems to me that a
> more robust mechanism is needed than the current one.

+1

And the default location of the file should respect the Linux standards,
e.g. .config/dpdk/...