[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add option to put timestamp on console output

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:20:28PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:09:11 +0300
> Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 11:45:49 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 21:39:29 +0300
> > > Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com> wrote:  
> > [...]
> > > FreeBsd doesn't go through the same log code.  
> > 
> > Then --log-timestamp shouldn't appear on FreeBSD if it's unsupported.
> 
> Was using same ifdef that is already there. There are several options already
> (like syslog facility) which do nothing on FreeBSD anyway.
> 
While that is correct, I think that we really should support this on
FreeBSD also, since I don't think there is any technical reason we can't do
so, right? Even a sub-optimal solution where the timestamp write and log
write are non-atomic would be better than nothing.

/Bruce