[erlang-questions] user_drv cannot properly print new lines

[José Valim]

More information:

When starting erlang with -noshell, process_info(whereis(user)) is inside
user:server_loop. Otherwise, it is inside group:server_loop. Everything
else appears to be the same.

Also, if we invoke io:format(user, ...)as in the previous e-mail when
starting with -noshell, everything works fine. The message just becomes
skewed with -noshell when user_drv:start() is invoked. I still could not
detect what is causing the side effect.

*
José Valim
www.plataformatec.com.br
Founder and Lead Developer
*


On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM, José Valim <jose.valim@REDACTED> wrote:

> Yes, it does, thanks!
>
> However, error_logger, lager and everything else just sends \n.
> So while I could control my output, I cannot control such tools.
> Maybe something in user_drv or user should convert \n to \r\n?
>
>
>
> *
> José Valim
> www.plataformatec.com.br
> Founder and Lead Developer
> *
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Ashwin Mangale <ashwin.mangale@REDACTED>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Instead of:
>>
>> io:format(user, "foo\nbar\nbaz", []).
>>
>> Try:
>> io:format(user, "foo\r\nbar\r\nbaz", []).
>>
>>
>> This should give the proper formatted output.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ashwin
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:47 PM, José Valim <jose.valim@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>> More info:
>>>
>>> Running on Mac OS Snow Leopard, Erlang R15B or R15B01.
>>>
>>> user_drv:start() is spawning user:start() and not 'tty -c -e'.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *
>>> José Valim
>>> www.plataformatec.com.br
>>> Founder and Lead Developer
>>> *
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:07 PM, José Valim <jose.valim@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> If I run the following command:
>>>>
>>>> $ erl -noinput -s user_drv
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And then try to send any io message to the user process, the message
>>>> appears skewed:
>>>>
>>>> 1> io:format(user, "foo\nbar\nbaz", []).
>>>>
>>>> foo
>>>>    bar
>>>>       bazok
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However, sending the message to io makes it appear correctly:
>>>>
>>>> 2> io:format(standard_io, "foo\nbar\nbaz", []).
>>>> foo
>>>> bar
>>>> bazok
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This becomes a major problem when printing error logger messages to
>>>> tty, which become completely unreadable.
>>>>
>>>> I have found out this issue when starting an Elixir shell with user_drv.
>>>> The issue also appears with LFE and any other time user_drv is started
>>>> manually.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know a fix to this problem or how I could debug it further?
>>>>
>>>> *
>>>> José Valim
>>>> www.plataformatec.com.br
>>>> Founder and Lead Developer
>>>> *
>>>>
>>>
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