Changeset 28158 for trunk/Ohana/src/opihi/pcontrol/pcontrol.c.in

Timestamp:

May 28, 2010, 11:51:46 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

eugene

Message:

redirect pcontrol stderr to log file; add bits to harvest zombies that may accumulate

File:

• trunk/Ohana/src/opihi/pcontrol/pcontrol.c.in (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/Ohana/src/opihi/pcontrol/pcontrol.c.in

@@ -1 +1 @@
 # include "pcontrol.h"
+
+# define STDERR_FILE "pcontrol.log"
 
 # define opihi_name "PCONTROL"
@@ -24 +26 @@
   signal (SIGTSTP, gotsignal);
   signal (SIGTTIN, gotsignal);
+
+  // stdin / stdout are used for communication with pantasks.
+  // redirect stderr so various error messages are saved
+  stderr = freopen (STDERR_FILE, "a", stderr);
+  if (!stderr) {
+      fprintf (stdout, "failed to open %s for error output\n", STDERR_FILE);
+      exit (1);
+  }
 
   rl_readline_name = opihi_name;