Re: [PATCH 4/4] coccicheck: add indexing enhancement options

Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-14T19:27:35Z

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 07:22:03AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
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> On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 09:50:15PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
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> > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
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> > > > I'll redirect stderr to stdout by default when parmap support is used then.
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> > > Usually I put them in different files.
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> > We can do that as well but I would only want to deal with parmap support
> > case. Any preference? How about .coccicheck.stderr.$PID where PID would
> > be the PID of the shell script?
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> I don't understand the connection with parmap.

When parmap support is not available the cocciscript will currently
disregard stderr, output is provided as it comes to stdout from each
thread I guess.

> Originally our use of parmap made output files based on pids. Maybe this
> is the default for parmap. I found this completely unusable. I guess one
> could look at the dates to see which file is the most recent one, but it
> seems tedious. If you are putting the standard output in x.out, then put
> the standard error in x.err.

I'll use ${DIR}/coccicheck.$$.err for stderr.

Luis