Concurrency output issue

[Dmitry V. Levin]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:24:07PM -0400, Bao Hong Tan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I looked at strace's output and saw the following:
> 
> 01:20:00.727079 recv(-1345034744, 01:20:00.727768 write(24, "338", 
> 301:20:00.728785 SYS_224(0x3adfa8, 0x40025730, 0xa, 0x45006f40) = 0xccd000
> 01:20:00.729827 recv(-1345034744, 0x81, 1, MSG_OOB) = 1
> "", 2, 0) = 0

This output is odd in many aspects, I haven't seen such things for ages.

> The traced program have multiple threads. Looks like strace is not able 
> to handle concurrent output to the log file.
> 
> For example, the first line is interrupted by another.
> 
> I am using version 4.5.12 (in Android) by the way, has this issue been 
> fixed?

Well, 4.5.12 was released almost 7 years ago, the latest released version
at this moment is 4.6, it definitely works better with threads.


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