I can reproducibly (but nondeterministically) reproduce a problem where setting NSPR_LOG_MODULES, but not NSPR_LOG_FILE, redirecting stdout and stderr to a file using bash >&, and using "mach mochitest-plain", the occasional log message gets dropped. This can be very disturbing when trying to debug using those logs.
There may be something peculiar with my setup causing this. I haven't noticed this happening before, but it's hard to notice and therefore hard to say if it's a regression or not. It does not seem to happen when I use NSPR_LOG_FILE to write directly to a file, although having NSPR logging and stderr output mixed into the same file in the right temporal order is useful. I dug into this pretty hard today and couldn't figure out what the problem was. I got as far as instrumenting pt_Write in ptio.c and observing (or seeming to observe) a write() system call to fd 2 completing without error but failing to reach my log file. At that point I gave up and moved on. I may look again if my appetite for pain returns. Rob -- Jtehsauts tshaei dS,o n" Wohfy Mdaon yhoaus eanuttehrotraiitny eovni le atrhtohu gthot sf oirng iyvoeu rs ihnesa.r"t sS?o Whhei csha iids teoa stiheer :p atroa lsyazye,d 'mYaonu,r "sGients uapr,e tfaokreg iyvoeunr, 'm aotr atnod sgaoy ,h o'mGee.t" uTph eann dt hwea lmka'n? gBoutt uIp waanndt wyeonut thoo mken.o w _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
