Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 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)
>
Hi Klaus,
a short look into the documentation gave me the impression, that your
wish is not yet supported by the glibc, at least on my Debian Sarge
system. An idea might be to check, what happens if you do the openlog
call for testing in the desired thread, e.g. for testing before every
syslog call. If this does not produce to much load and solves the
problem, I would say "Just do it!" and post a according bug report to
the glibc-Developers. :-)
Just my 2 cents,
--
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