With a small update, it'll save perror() output:
greerga@cambot:~/circle30bpl11/freopen$ tail ../log/syslog
Tue Oct 21 09:27:28 :: Losing player: Azalin.
Tue Oct 21 09:27:28 :: No connections. Going to sleep.
Tue Oct 21 09:27:32 :: New connection. Waking up.
gethostbyaddr: Error 0
Tue Oct 21 09:27:34 :: Azalin [134.053.147.032] has connected.
Tue Oct 21 09:27:35 :: Azalin retrieving crash-saved items and entering game.
Tue Oct 21 09:27:40 :: (GC) Shutdown by Azalin.
Tue Oct 21 09:27:40 :: Closing all sockets.
Tue Oct 21 09:27:40 :: Closing link to: Azalin.
Tue Oct 21 09:27:40 :: Normal termination of game.
Standard ANSI C function...MSVC claims to support it.
diff -upPr -x *.o ../done/filelog/comm.c ./comm.c
--- ../done/filelog/comm.c Mon Oct 20 15:07:44 1997
+++ ./comm.c Tue Oct 21 09:17:15 1997
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
dir = DFLT_DIR;
/* Be nice to make this a command line option but the parser uses log() */
- if (*LOGFILE != '\0' && !(logfile = fopen(LOGFILE, "w"))) {
+ if (*LOGFILE != '\0' && !(logfile = freopen(LOGFILE, "w", stderr))) {
fprintf(stdout, "Error opening log file!\n");
exit(1);
}
diff -upPr -x *.o ../done/filelog/utils.c ./utils.c
--- ../done/filelog/utils.c Mon Oct 20 15:06:30 1997
+++ ./utils.c Tue Oct 21 09:26:47 1997
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ void log(char *str)
tmstr = asctime(localtime(&ct));
*(tmstr + strlen(tmstr) - 1) = '\0';
fprintf(logfile, "%-19.19s :: %s\n", tmstr, str);
+ fflush(logfile);
}
@@ -166,8 +167,10 @@ void mudlog(char *str, char type, int le
ct = time(0);
tmp = asctime(localtime(&ct));
- if (file)
+ if (file) {
fprintf(logfile, "%-19.19s :: %s\n", tmp, str);
+ fflush(logfile);
+ }
if (level < 0)
return;
--
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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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