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Save the last three stdout.log files (which is useful in diagnosing

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crashes caused by e.g. a problem in a previous run).
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hiker
2014-05-30 16:00:28 +10:00
parent bb09ec9e37
commit a907df37ad
1 changed files with 26 additions and 2 deletions
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src/io/file_manager.cpp
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@@ -996,12 +996,36 @@ std::string FileManager::checkAndCreateLinuxDir(const char *env_name,
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
/** Redirects output to go into files in the user's config directory
* instead of to the console.
* instead of to the console. It keeps backup copies of previous stdout files
* (3 atm), which can help to diagnose problems caused by a previous crash.
*/
void FileManager::redirectOutput()
{
//Enable logging of stdout and stderr to logfile
// Do a simple log rotate: stdout.log.2 becomes stdout.log.3 etc
const int NUM_BACKUPS=3;
std::string logoutfile = getUserConfigFile("stdout.log");
for(int i=NUM_BACKUPS; i>1; i--)
{
std::ostringstream out_old;
out_old << logoutfile << "." << i;
removeFile(out_old.str());
std::ostringstream out_new;
out_new << logoutfile << "." << i-1;
if(fileExists(out_new.str()))
{
rename(out_new.str().c_str(), out_old.str().c_str());
}
} // for i in NUM_BACKUPS
if(fileExists(logoutfile))
{
std::ostringstream out;
out << logoutfile<<".1";
// No good place to log error messages when log is not yet initialised
rename(logoutfile.c_str(), out.str().c_str());
}
//Enable logging of stdout and stderr to logfile
Log::verbose("main", "Error messages and other text output will "
"be logged to %s.", logoutfile.c_str());
Log::openOutputFiles(logoutfile);