Francois-Xavier KOWALSKI wrote:
> Hello Klaus,
>
> find below a tip upon Dominique's request.
>
>> Subject:
>> Process id in syslog
>> From:
>> Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:
>> Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:12:24 +0100
>> To:
>> vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> To:
>> vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> Before the conversion to NPTL, the syslog entries showed
>> the pid of each individual thread, so that it was easy to
>> tell which thread had issued a particular message.
>>
>> Now, with NPTL, all VDR syslog entries have the same pid,
>> which is that of the foreground thread. This is pretty
>> useless, because in case of a problem it's important
>> to know exactly which thread has issued which message.
>>
>> Since I couldn't find any information on this, maybe somebody
>> here knows how openlog() needs to be called in order to have
>> the individual thread pids displayed in syslog messages on
>> an NPTL system.
>>
>>
> Whatever pthread implementation is in use, the symlink /proc/self always
> refers to the LWPID (Light-Weight Process ID, i.e. thread PID in your
> case). I suggest -- this is what I do -- to stat(2) /proc/self refered
> file & sscanf(3) it. Of course, this is better to be done & stored (e.g.
> in TLS) at the thread startup & then re-used upon need.
Well, this isn't exactly what I meant.
I do have the right pids in my program.
What I want is that a call like
openlog("vdr", LOG_PID | LOG_CONS, LOG_USER);
followed by
syslog(LOG_INFO, "some log message");
writes to the log file
Jan 7 12:25:52 video vdr[7457]: some log message
where [7457] should be the pid of the actual thread, not that
of the main thread.
For instance, on a non-NPTL system, the log looks like this:
Dec 10 14:38:51 video vdr[709]: VDR version 1.3.38 started
Dec 10 14:38:51 video vdr[709]: loading /video/setup.conf
...
Dec 10 14:38:51 video vdr[711]: video directory scanner thread started (pid=711, tid=711)
while on an NPTL system I get:
Jan 7 12:25:51 video vdr[7457]: VDR version 1.3.38 started
Jan 7 12:25:51 video vdr[7457]: loading /video/setup.conf
...
Jan 7 12:25:52 video vdr[7457]: video directory scanner thread started (pid=7457, tid=7459)
As you can see, in the first case there is vdr[709] for the main thread
and vdr[711] for the second thread. In the second case there is vdr[7457]
for both threads, while I would like the second thread to show vdr[7459].
Here's a manually created example of how this should look:
Jan 7 12:25:51 video vdr[7457]: VDR version 1.3.38 started
Jan 7 12:25:51 video vdr[7457]: loading /video/setup.conf
...
Jan 7 12:25:52 video vdr[7459]: video directory scanner thread started (pid=7457, tid=7459)
Klaus
