From patchwork Mon Sep 17 22:43:31 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [bitbake-devel,1/8] bitbake: Unbuffer stdout for log files Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:43:31 -0000 From: Jason Wessel X-Patchwork-Id: 36665 Message-Id: <1347921818-60562-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com> To: It is possible to lose critical log data when python exits in an unorderly fashion via segmentation fault or certain types of crashes. This is because the buffer characteristics are inherited from the top level stdout, which should be set to unbuffered, for the purpose of all the forked children. This pushes the buffering to the OS, instead of having python managing the buffers in its stream handler class. This change is also to provide the ability to tail logs written from processes in "real time" because they would be written in an orderly fashion depending upon the OS characteristics for the file I/O. (LOCAL REV ONLY: NOT UPSTREAM) Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel --- bin/bitbake | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/bin/bitbake b/bin/bitbake index ed2ff06..c000d98 100755 --- a/bin/bitbake +++ b/bin/bitbake @@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ from bb import server __version__ = "1.15.3" logger = logging.getLogger("BitBake") +# Unbuffer stdout to avoid log truncation in the event +# of an unorderly exit as well as to provide timely +# updates to log files for use with tail +try: + if sys.stdout.name == '': + sys.stdout = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(), 'w', 0) +except: + pass class BBConfiguration(object): """