203614 - Improve formatting of thread info at start of each logged line

Status: NEW

(NSPR :: NSPR, defect)

Description

[Ben Fowler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030418 Chimera/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030418 Chimera/0.7+

Around line 420 of prlog.c, the code

    nb = PR_snprintf(line, sizeof(line)-1, "%ld[%p]: ",

is used to format characteresitcs of the thread that is being logged.

I think that there should be some element of customisation possible,
e.g. code like this:

//    static char *fmtThread = "%uld[%p]: ";
    static char *fmtThread = "[thread_id %x]: ";


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Turn on logging at some level
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The logged lines of output will start with some really ugly numbers

Expected Results:  
It is not absolute, but I would have thought that a neater representation of
the thread id would be better.

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

-> nspr

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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