#15440: Flush eventlog in hs_init_ghc -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: maoe | Owner: (none) Type: feature | Status: new request | Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Runtime | Version: 8.4.3 System | Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Currently GHC RTS traces some basic information about the process in `hs_init_ghc` but the information is often flushed to the eventlog at the very end of the process lifetime. Or even worse, it's never written to it if the process terminates abnormally. This is very inconvenient because the information contains some useful stuff like EVENT_WALL_CLOCK_TIME, which is quite important if user wants to sync timestamps in the eventlog with clock. The simplest way to fix the issue is to flush the eventlog buffer in `hs_init_ghc`. This is implemented at https://github.com/maoe/ghc/commit/30e20e4e66adccc28c59c8876331918d30eacef2. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15440 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler