21 Jan
2023
21 Jan
'23
5:22 a.m.
That's dumb. Though I run slack like so
slack > /dev/null 2>&1 &
because whatever version I have spews garbage to stderr. Sigh.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 10:14:25AM +1100, Rob Pike wrote:
Yes, but everyone adds the flag --alsologtostderr
-rob
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 10:11 AM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 09:56:16AM +1100, Rob Pike wrote:
> > I will let others respond with specifics, but that was there in v5 at
> least.
> >
> > One of the many shocks I had on arrival at Google was that in production,
> > fd2 was pretty much standard output, as all the logging went there. And
> > since our machines were still 32-bit CPUs then, it was common to overflow
> > the offset because the logging output was, well, not parsimonious. It
> felt
> > like I'd entered bizarro world, until I realized that few anywhere really
> > knew how Unix was supposed to be used. And they still don't, and never
> will.
>
> Isn't there a logging API complete with the ability to centralize the logs?
>
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