Re: New log file header

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Ehud Karni wrote:
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> On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:38:52 -0500, Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
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> > The new header in the log file, as of XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-49, looks like
> > the following:
> >
> > ===================================================
> > Welcome to the XWin X Server
> > Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> > Release: 4.3.0.49
> > Contact: cygwin-xfree at cygwin daught com
> >
> > XWin was started with the following command line:
> >
> > XWin :0 -multiwindow -clipboard
> >
> > ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> > [...]
> > ===================================================
>
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> This change is very good, but there are 2 notes:
>
> 1. The Identification (Welcome ... Contact) appears twice (at the top
>    and just after "winInitializeDefaultScreens".

Actually, I saw that and fixed it about an hour after the release of 
-49.  So, there were two -49 releases, one of them silent. :)  I figured 
the number of users getting the new release within the first hour would 
be small.  -50 has the same fix.

> 2. Could you add a time-stamp at beginning of each line ?
>    I tried to correspond the log messages with external actions (i.e.
>    copy/paste and Emacs errors) and the time stamp could help.

That is an interesting idea.  I think we can do something like that 
because we have a single "ErrorF" function that handles printing the log 
messages.  We should be able to modify this one function to get 
timestamps on all entries... but it may not look too pretty since it 
will mess with multiple-line error messages that come from other parts 
of the source code.  If those lines are printed with multiple ErrorF 
calls, then things will line up correctly.  However, if they are printed 
with a single call to ErrorF with multiple "\n"'s, then it may not look 
so good.  Of course, we could substitute each "\n" in the format string 
(except for the last) with "\n%TIME%", which would help to keep things 
aligned.

I dunno... I will have to think about this a bit.

>    I use the code below in my programs.

Thanks, this will help.

> BTW. I could not download 4.3.0-50 from the mirrors yet.

Some mirrors update hourly, others daily or every two days.  You can try 
to find a more up-to-date mirror if you like.

Harold