Re: s6 problems logging

From: Sean MacLennan <seanm_at_seanm.ca>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:56:46 -0500

So it seems that s6-log does not like buffered output. I modified
doorknob to vsnprintf into a buffer and then tried various output
methods.

1. puts(msg) Failed as expected (basically the same as vprintf).

2. write(1, msg, strlen(msg)) Worked! So non-buffered ok.

3. fputs(msg, stderr) Then add `fdmove -c 2 1' to the run file works!
   So fdmove seems to fix things up. Which is probably why most people
   don't see this problem.

Obviously, for 2 and 3 I did a strcat(msg, "\n").

So I think I will go with 2, but to stderr to follow Jonathan de Boyne
Pollard's comment "Unix conventions: Logs go to standard error".

Thanks everybody for the input. I probably would not have suspected the
buffered output was a problem.

Cheers,
   Sean
Received on Sun Jan 27 2019 - 18:56:46 UTC