[Swift-devel] Error messages and execution retries

[Michael Wilde]

Sarah, this seems like an excellent first improvement to tackle in the project of improving Swift messages and logs.

The problem is that Swift buffers some class of runtime error message and emits them at the end of the run *if and only if the run completes*.  In the very common case where the user kills the swift command with ^C because it seems to be getting nowhere, the use never sees these critical messages unless they can fush them out of some stdout/err files deep in e.g. the work directory.

I think these messages should be clearly presented in the log or some other place as soon as they occur.

- Mike


----- "David Kelly" <dk0966 at cs.ship.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> When execution.retries is greater than 0 and an error occurs, the
> error message is not displayed or recorded in the log file. In my
> case, I had an application pointing to the wrong path. I couldn't get
> a clear idea of what happening until I set execution.retries to 0.
> 
> Should swift be changed to report these errors as soon as they happen?
> 
> David
> 
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Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory