[PATCH] Send trace output to stderr
Trace output sent to stdout can be lost in the event of a crash due to buffering. This patch sends it to stderr instead. --- src/generator.ml | 26 +++++++++++++------------- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/generator.ml b/src/generator.ml index 52e7aba..db674a6 100755 --- a/src/generator.ml +++ b/src/generator.ml @@ -6174,7 +6174,7 @@ check_state (guestfs_h *g, const char *caller) pr "\n" ); - pr " printf (\"%s\");\n" shortname; + pr " fprintf (stderr, \"%s\");\n" shortname; List.iter ( function | String n (* strings *) @@ -6186,27 +6186,27 @@ check_state (guestfs_h *g, const char *caller) | BufferIn n | Key n -> (* guestfish doesn't support string escaping, so neither do we *) - pr " printf (\" \\\"%%s\\\"\", %s);\n" n + pr " fprintf (stderr, \" \\\"%%s\\\"\", %s);\n" n | OptString n -> (* string option *) - pr " if (%s) printf (\" \\\"%%s\\\"\", %s);\n" n n; - pr " else printf (\" null\");\n" + pr " if (%s) fprintf (stderr, \" \\\"%%s\\\"\", %s);\n" n n; + pr " else fprintf (stderr, \" null\");\n" | StringList n | DeviceList n -> (* string list *) - pr " putchar (' ');\n"; - pr " putchar ('\"');\n"; + pr " fputc (' ', stderr);\n"; + pr " fputc ('\"', stderr);\n"; pr " for (i = 0; %s[i]; ++i) {\n" n; - pr " if (i > 0) putchar (' ');\n"; - pr " fputs (%s[i], stdout);\n" n; + pr " if (i > 0) fputc (' ', stderr);\n"; + pr " fputs (%s[i], stderr);\n" n; pr " }\n"; - pr " putchar ('\"');\n"; + pr " fputc ('\"', stderr);\n"; | Bool n -> (* boolean *) - pr " fputs (%s ? \" true\" : \" false\", stdout);\n" n + pr " fputs (%s ? \" true\" : \" false\", stderr);\n" n | Int n -> (* int *) - pr " printf (\" %%d\", %s);\n" n + pr " fprintf (stderr, \" %%d\", %s);\n" n | Int64 n -> - pr " printf (\" %%\" PRIi64, %s);\n" n + pr " fprintf (stderr, \" %%\" PRIi64, %s);\n" n ) (snd style); - pr " putchar ('\\n');\n"; + pr " fputc ('\\n', stderr);\n"; pr " }\n"; pr "\n"; in -- 1.7.2
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:49:57AM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
Trace output sent to stdout can be lost in the event of a crash due to buffering. This patch sends it to stderr instead.
This is a very very minor ABI change, since we documented that traces were sent to stdout. However I have let it slide, and applied that patch upstream. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw
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