Changeset 45cf49f for owl.c

Timestamp:

Feb 23, 2009, 5:42:47 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>

Branches:

master, debian, release-1.10, release-1.4, release-1.5, release-1.6, release-1.7, release-1.8, release-1.9

Children:

5283b01

Parents:

1375a6a

Message:

Don't send stderr to admin messages.

We've been getting a lot of complaints about 'uninitialized use of
...' errors and of spew from buggy zsig randomizers. In both cases,
this was an effect of the way we were sending stderr to error
messages, and those error messages went to admin messages because of a
change in 1.0.5.

We still send stderr to the error message log, but text there will no
longer show up anywhere by default.

File:

• owl.c (modified) (2 diffs)

owl.c

@@ -717 +717 @@
   char buf[4096];
   int rfd = d->fd;
+  char *err;
+
   if (rfd<0) return;
   if (-1 == ioctl(rfd, FIONREAD, (void*)&navail)) {
@@ -730 +732 @@
     buf[navail] = '\0';
   }
-  owl_function_error("[stderr]\n%s", buf);
+
+  err = owl_sprintf("[stderr]\n%s", buf);
+
+  owl_function_log_err(err);
 }