Trace path creation made on the client side

[lttng-tools.git] / lttng / commands / create.c

diff --git a/lttng/commands/create.c b/lttng/commands/create.c
index dbed8f021568f53c38b37432a078639f911fa77d..b8bbdb7e7ba453434279a320b538fddb36dd9f9d 100644 (file)
--- a/lttng/commands/create.c
+++ b/lttng/commands/create.c
@@ -65,17 +65,23 @@ static void usage(FILE *ofp)
 static int create_session()
 {
        int ret, have_name = 0;
-       char name[NAME_MAX];
+       char datetime[16];
        char *session_name, *traces_path = NULL, *alloc_path = NULL;
        time_t rawtime;
        struct tm *timeinfo;
 
+       /* Get date and time for automatic session name/path */
+       time(&rawtime);
+       timeinfo = localtime(&rawtime);
+       strftime(datetime, sizeof(datetime), "%Y%m%d-%H%M%S", timeinfo);
+
        /* Auto session name creation */
        if (opt_session_name == NULL) {
-               time(&rawtime);
-               timeinfo = localtime(&rawtime);
-               strftime(name, sizeof(name), "auto-%Y%m%d-%H%M%S", timeinfo);
-               session_name = name;
+               ret = asprintf(&session_name, "auto-%s", datetime);
+               if (ret < 0) {
+                       perror("asprintf session name");
+                       goto error;
+               }
                DBG("Auto session name set to %s", session_name);
        } else {
                session_name = opt_session_name;
@@ -92,7 +98,8 @@ static int create_session()
                        goto error;
                }
 
-               ret = asprintf(&traces_path, "%s/" LTTNG_DEFAULT_TRACE_DIR_NAME, alloc_path);
+               ret = asprintf(&traces_path, "%s/" LTTNG_DEFAULT_TRACE_DIR_NAME
+                               "/%s-%s", alloc_path, session_name, datetime);
                if (ret < 0) {
                        perror("asprintf trace dir name");
                        goto error;
@@ -117,7 +124,7 @@ static int create_session()
 
        MSG("Session %s created.", session_name);
        if (have_name) {
-               MSG("Traces will be written in %s/%s-<date>-<time>" , traces_path, session_name);
+               MSG("Traces will be written in %s" , traces_path);
        } else {
                MSG("Traces will be written in %s/%s", traces_path, session_name);
        }