Re: [HACKERS] query log corrupted-looking entries

Tom Lane wrote:
> I checked around with some kernel/glibc gurus in Red Hat, and the
> consensus seemed to be that we'd be better off to bypass fprintf() and
> just send message strings to stderr using write() --- ie, instead of
> elog.c doing
>
> fprintf(stderr, "%s", buf.data);
>
> do
>
> write(fileno(stderr), buf.data, strlen(buf.data));
>
> Anyone have any comments on possible portability risks? In
> particular, will this work on Windows?

The following program compiles and runs fine:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
const char *s="Hello!\n";

write(fileno(stderr), s, strlen(s));
return 0;
}

Yours,
Laurenz Albe