[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 1/8] bitbake: Unbuffer stdout for log files

[Jason Wessel]

On 09/17/2012 07:46 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Jason Wessel
> <jason.wessel at windriver.com> wrote:
>> 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 <jason.wessel at windriver.com>
>
> I'm assuming you forgot to rebase -i and remove the LOCAL REV ONLY? :)


Oops :-)

I can resend the patches, but I did re-base against the head but for some reason the filter was not working.

Jason.