Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:10:00PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
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> On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:43:04PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
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> > > 
> > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
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> > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:17:38PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
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> > > > > 
> > > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
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> > > > > > Coccinelle has had parmap support since 1.0.2, this means
> > > > > > it supports --jobs, enabling built-in multithreaded functionality,
> > > > > > instead of needing one to script it out. Just look for --jobs
> > > > > > in the help output to determine if this is supported.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Also enable the load balancing to be dynamic, so that if a
> > > > > > thread finishes early we keep feeding it.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Note: now that we have all things handled for us, redirect stderr to
> > > > > > stdout as well to capture any possible errors or warnings issued by
> > > > > > coccinelle.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > If --jobs is not supported we fallback to the old mechanism.
> > > > > > This also now accepts DEBUG_FILE= to specify where you want
> > > > > > stderr to be redirected to, by default we redirect stderr to
> > > > > > /dev/null.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Why do you want to do something different for standard error in the parmap 
> > > > > and nonparmap case?
> > > > 
> > > > We should just deprecate non-parmap later.
> > > 
> > > that's not really getting at the point.  I like the DEBUG_FILE= solution.  
> > > I don't like merging stderr and stdout.  So you've put what to my mind is 
> > > the good solution only in the deprecated case (to my understanding of 
> > > the commit message).
> > 
> > stderr is not being merged to stdout though. By default stderr goes to /dev/null
> > and if you want it you specify a DEBUG_FILE.
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> Above it says:
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> Note: now that we have all things handled for us, redirect stderr to 
> stdout as well to capture any possible errors or warnings issued by 
> coccinelle.

Ah crap, sorry I left that in the commit log message by mistake.

> If DEBUG_FILE is an option for the parmap case, it should be mentioned 
> there too.

Indeed, its as described instead, stderr goes to /dev/null by default
unless DEBUG_FILE is specified, if it is specified then stderr goes
to DEBUG_FILE.

  Luis