[Development] Work on qDebug and friends

[BRM]

> From: David Faure <faure at kde.org>
> To: development at qt-project.org; Diego Iastrubni <diegoiast at gmail.com>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2012 5:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Development] Work on qDebug and friends
> 
> On Sunday 05 February 2012 10:50:48 BRM wrote:
>>  > From: Diego Iastrubni <diegoiast at gmail.com>
>>  >
>>  >On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:10 PM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> 
> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >Once this goes in I'll add support for %pid%, %processname% and
>>  >%timestamp%,>
>>  >>and we'll be all set :)
>>  >
>>  >You meant %threadid% of course... right?
>> 
>>  Wouldn't having both available be useful?
> 
> Yes, the PID is definitely what I meant, it's very much needed, for the case 
> of multiple
> daemons running in the background and outputting debug into the same file. The 
> PID
> is then useful for killing a run-away daemon, or for attaching gdb to it, etc.
> 
> Without the PID, impossible to notice that these two lines come from two 
> different
> processes, for instance:
> 20:29:11 konqueror(2630) kdemain: Unknown class "" in session saved 
> data! 
> 20:29:11 konqueror(2625) 
> KonqSessionManager::askUserToRestoreAutosavedAbandonedSessions: 
> "/home/dfaure/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror/autosave/owned_by_1.33/_1.60"

All true; but it would also be useful to the Thread ID available as well - so you can tell the difference between what's provided in two different threads.
I know Linux 2.4 LWPT simply did different processes; but that's not true with 2.6; and I believe Windows uses separate IDs as well.
True - the user could care less; but it would be useful for debugging.

For example, a single program with multiple data streams where each data stream is handled by its own thread (e.g. a server daemon).
Without the thread ID  as well, how would you track down thread related bugs? (Yes, for a server application you should be doing some kind of session id as well;
but if those data streams were with files or sockets, or something then you may not have an easy way to distinguish the threads based on the use alone.)

$0.02

Ben