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author哇呜哇呜呀咦耶 <pingao777@gmail.com>2022-11-13 22:25:37 +0800
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-11-13 23:25:37 +0900
commit8626e7ab40f39dc01cea17b43408f7f6d30fd7e4 (patch)
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update log path (#1927)
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@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Once you do, in the repository root:
To re-run the tests after you've changed something in the code base, be sure to repeat steps 2 and 3.
## Debugging / Troubleshooting while developing
-Zellij uses the excellent [`log`](https://crates.io/crates/log) crate to handle its internal logging. The output of these logs will go to `/tmp/zellij-<UID>/zellij-log/zellij.log`.
+Zellij uses the excellent [`log`](https://crates.io/crates/log) crate to handle its internal logging. The output of these logs will go to `/$temp_dir/zellij-<UID>/zellij-log/zellij.log` which `$temp_dir` refers to [std::env::temp_dir()](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/env/fn.temp_dir.html). On most of operating systems it points to `/tmp`, but there are exceptions, such as `/var/folders/dr/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/` for Mac.
Example:
```rust
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ log::info!("my variable is: {:?}", my_variable);
Note that the output is truncated at 100KB. This can be adjusted for the purposes of debugging through the `LOG_MAX_BYTES` constant, at the time of writing here: https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/blob/main/zellij-utils/src/logging.rs#L24
-When running Zellij with the `--debug` flag, Zellij will dump a copy of all bytes received over the pty for each pane in: `/tmp/zellij-<UID>/zellij-log/zellij-<pane_id>.log`. These might be useful when troubleshooting terminal issues.
+When running Zellij with the `--debug` flag, Zellij will dump a copy of all bytes received over the pty for each pane in: `/$temp_dir/zellij-<UID>/zellij-log/zellij-<pane_id>.log`. These might be useful when troubleshooting terminal issues.
## How we treat clippy lints