Re: [PATCH 4/4] coccicheck: add indexing enhancement options

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:17:13PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
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> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:47:32PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
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> > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
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> > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 07:22:03AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
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> > > > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
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> > > > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 09:50:15PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
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> > > > > > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
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> > > > > > > > I'll redirect stderr to stdout by default when parmap support is used then.
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> > > > > > > Usually I put them in different files.
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> > > > > > We can do that as well but I would only want to deal with parmap support 
> > > > > > case. Any preference? How about .coccicheck.stderr.$PID where PID would 
> > > > > > be the PID of the shell script?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I don't understand the connection with parmap.
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> > > > When parmap support is not available the cocciscript will currently
> > > > disregard stderr, output is provided as it comes to stdout from each
> > > > thread I guess.
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> > > Deepa's recent patch to coccicheck made apparent that Coccicheck uses 
> > > --very-quiet, so there is standard error.
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> > OK I'm disegarding the redirect for non-parmap for now but we'd have to
> > determine if we want to append or add one per PID... I rather leave that
> > stuff as-is and encourage folks to upgrade coccinelle.
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> If coccicheck is using --very-quiet, there will not be much stderr of 
> interest when using parmap either.

OK I don't follow. Does coccinelle only direct error to stderr when --very-quiet
is used ? Or does using --very-quiet suppress stderr ?

> I'm not sure to understan the issue about appending.  Appending what to 
> what?
> While Coccinelle is running, you have a directory with the same 
> name as your semantic patch (or a directory name that you specify with 
> --tmp-dir) that has separate files for each core's standard output and 
> standard error.  At the end, when all the code has been treated, 
> Coccinelle writes the successive stdouts to standard output, and the 
> sucessive stderrs to standard error.

Ah I see. OK yeah never mind about appending.

> > > > > Originally our use of parmap made output, specia files based on pids.  Maybe this 
> > > > > is the default for parmap.  I found this completely unusable.  I guess one 
> > > > > could look at the dates to see which file is the most recent one, but it 
> > > > > seems tedious.  If you are putting the standard output in x.out, then put 
> > > > > the standard error in x.err.
> > > > 
> > > > I'll use ${DIR}/coccicheck.$$.err for stderr.
> > > 
> > > What is ${DIR}? and what is $$?
> > 
> > When you run scripts/coccicheck we take the absolute directory
> > of it and then go down one level of directory, so in this case it
> > would be the base directory of the Linux kernel.
> > 
> > $$ is the PID of the bash script.
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> OK.  I still don't find PIDs useful, but I guess if we are talking about 
> the entire output of coccicheck, there is not much else to do.  Normally, 
> I don't want these files accumulating, and just write over the old ones.

Which is why I would much prefer to instead just redirect in coccicheck
case stderr to stdout from coccinelle. Is that preferred?

  Luis