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On Sun, 2018-09-02 at 10:43 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> We need to print exceptions and flush output channels before telling
> the
> client that the server failed. Otherwise the daemon log file may
> still
> be empty when the client opens it for printing.
> 
> This fixes error reporting when the output is redirected to a pipe,
> e.g.
> "bitbake target | cat" with a syntax error in a recipes or config
> file.
> That's specifically annoying when bitbake is under the control of a
> frontend process such as kas.

Hi,

Could you check if this was already fixed by:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=cbe2d3cb0af6c7a5cd368e7dc489960a13648bd0

?

I really want to get these flushes as close to the source of the
problems as we can.

Cheers,

Richard