Re: stdout or stderr file path on iPhone?
Re: stdout or stderr file path on iPhone?
- Subject: Re: stdout or stderr file path on iPhone?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:30:49 -0700
On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Manfred Schwind wrote:
> is there a file path to the console output - visible in Xcode, e.g. when calling NSLog, I think it's stderr - on the iPhone?
> I tried "/dev/stderr" or "/dev/fd/2" (and several other paths) but they do not work and if I get the directory contents of "/dev" they really don't exist on iOS.
Wow, that is rather weird. You might ask on the darwin-userlevel mailing list here, which is all about that level of stuff.
> Background: I have a third party library (that I am not allowed to change) that logs to a file in Debug mode. I want to see this log output directly in the Xcode console, because transferring log files from the iPhone is too complicated. The library provides an API to set the file path (unfortunately not a file handle or something else).
As a workaround you could run a background thread that opens that log file, waits for its EOF to increase, and then echoes the appended data to stderr. (Basically like ‘tail -n’.)
—Jens_______________________________________________
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