[PATCH 1/3] lib/log: Include timestamp prefix

Samuel Mendoza-Jonas sam at mendozajonas.com
Mon Jul 30 11:48:24 AEST 2018


The relative time between logged events is very useful during debugging,
particularly when debugging autoboot failures. Prepend a short HH:MM:SS
timestamp to each line logged.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam at mendozajonas.com>
---
 lib/log/log.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/log/log.c b/lib/log/log.c
index 44543d0..adb2078 100644
--- a/lib/log/log.c
+++ b/lib/log/log.c
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <time.h>
 
 #include "log.h"
 
@@ -9,8 +11,17 @@ static bool debug;
 
 static void __log(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
 {
+	char hms[20] = {'\0'};
+	time_t t;
+
 	if (!logf)
 		return;
+
+	/* Add timestamp */
+	t = time(NULL);
+	strftime(hms, sizeof(hms), "%T", localtime(&t));
+	fprintf(logf, "[%s] ", hms);
+
 	vfprintf(logf, fmt, ap);
 	fflush(logf);
 }
-- 
2.18.0



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