Delayed debug tracing

Mike Hearn mike at theoretic.com
Sat Dec 13 10:46:06 CST 2003


On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 16:36, Rein Klazes wrote:
> Gerard Patel (if I remember his name correctly) send in such a patch
> years ago, which was not committed for obvious reasons.

Sorry, I guess the reasons aren't obvious to me. What's wrong with it?
Certainly using mini shell scripts like that seems to be more of a hack
than special casing some Wine code.

> My way to create a small log goes like this. Start wine like this:
> 
> (wine <arguments> & read ans; echo '===') 2>&1 |
> awk '{if( $1 == "===") flag=1-flag; if(flag) print}' >wine.log
> 
> filling the log will only begin after pressing the enter key. Add a
> while(true), to make it behave as a toggle.

That's certainly one way to do it that I hadn't thought of, but it looks
rather inefficient.

thanks -mike




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