1 babeltrace2-sink.utils.dummy(7)
2 ==============================
3 :manpagetype: component class
4 :revdate: 5 October 2017
9 babeltrace2-sink.utils.dummy - Babeltrace's dummy sink component class
14 The Babeltrace compcls:sink.utils.dummy component class, provided by the
15 man:babeltrace2-plugin-utils(7) plugin, once instantiated, receives
16 notifications from its input port and discards them (does absolutely
19 A compcls:sink.utils.dummy sink component can be useful to run a trace
20 processing graph with no sink side effect, for example to perform
21 benchmarks. You should prefer this component class for such tasks
22 instead of, for example, using a compcls:sink.text.pretty component and
23 sending its output to `/dev/null`, as a compcls:sink.text.pretty
24 component still performs pretty-printing operations.
27 INITIALIZATION PARAMETERS
28 -------------------------
29 This component class has no initialization parameters.
37 Single input port from which the component receives the
38 notifications to discard.
43 This component class has no objects to query.
48 include::common-common-compat-env.txt[]
51 include::common-footer.txt[]
56 man:babeltrace2-plugin-utils(7),
57 man:babeltrace2-intro(7)