[PATCH] fixing -logfile when used with -displayfd

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Mon Aug 28 05:21:47 UTC 2017


Bump. This is a cosmetic bug, but it trips up many people when they
cannot find the log file that they had requested.

This should be applied to older branches too since this particular bug
was also applied to 1.18.1 (a fairly big change too, especially compared
to this one liner fix for it)

Cheers
Antoine


On 05/08/17 17:09, Antoine Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Trivial way to reproduce the bug:
> Xorg -logfile /tmp/mylog -config /etc/xpra/xorg.conf -displayfd 2
> 
> The server then moans:
> Failed to rename log file "/tmp/mylog" to "/tmp/mylog": No such file or
> directory
> 
> And the log file is created, but immediately renamed to "/tmp/mylog.old"
> 
> This is caused by the changes to the log file handling introduced by
> this commit:
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=edcb6426f20c3be5dd5f50b76a686754aef2f64e
> And below is the trivial fix for it.
> 
> ---
> Don't try to add the pidstring to the log filename if it doesn't contain
> the "%s" placeholder for it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>
> ---
> diff --git a/os/log.c b/os/log.c
> index 91e55a532..a3b28ccb4 100644
> --- a/os/log.c
> +++ b/os/log.c
> @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ LogInit(const char *fname, const char *backup)
>  void
>  LogSetDisplay(void)
>  {
> -    if (saved_log_fname) {
> +    if (saved_log_fname && strstr(saved_log_fname, "%s")) {
>          char *logFileName;
> 
>          logFileName = LogFilePrep(saved_log_fname, saved_log_backup,
> display);
> 



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