[pve-devel] [PATCH proxmox v2] worker_task: write result message manually, bypassing tracing

[Gabriel Goller]

On 18.02.2025 16:05, Wolfgang Bumiller wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 03:52:26PM +0100, Gabriel Goller wrote:
>> diff --git a/proxmox-log/src/lib.rs b/proxmox-log/src/lib.rs
>> index 8c74e42b618d..755d1b4a850c 100644
>> --- a/proxmox-log/src/lib.rs
>> +++ b/proxmox-log/src/lib.rs
>> @@ -191,3 +191,20 @@ pub fn init_cli_logger(
>>      LogTracer::init_with_filter(log_level.as_log())?;
>>      Ok(())
>>  }
>> +
>> +/// Write manually to the current tasklog bypassing the whole tracing infrastructure. Note that this
>> +/// will also bypass all the filtering and writing to journald or elsewhere. If has_failed is true,
>> +/// print to stderr as well.
>> +pub fn log_manually_to_tasklog(msg: &str, has_failed: bool) -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
>
>What's "manual" about using a provided helper function? :-P

I thought of "manual" = "without tracing".

>Besides, the name kind of conflicts with the stderr write, which seems
>even more specific to the rest-server case.

True.

>Maybe a `LogContext::log_unfiltered(&str)` and rest-server just calls
>this+eprintln!()? Then the `error!()` invocation could be in a `None`
>match arm on the `LogContext::current()` match which IMO makes for much
>nicer control flow.

Damn, that's neat!

>Do we even anticipate any other use case than the one in rest-server?

Nope, not really, just this one.

Will submit a new patch with the changes soon!