[GAP Forum] bug(s) in LogTo

[Alexander Konovalov]

Dear Dima,

thank you for your message. In the next release of the GAP system
both LogTo and InputLogTo must recover properly from the break loop
in case of trying to create a log file in a non-accessible place.

Best wishes,
Alexander


On 16 Oct 2008, at 09:40, Asst. Prof. Dmitrii (Dima) Pasechnik wrote:

> Dear all,
> on Linux an attempt to LogTo to a place that is not accessable results
> in logging being deadlocked:
> LogTo(); results in
>
> LogTo: can not close the logfile at, and inability to start logging  
> at all.
>
> Example:
>
> gap> LogTo("blah/blah"); # directory "blah" does not exist, no  
> wonder...
> LogTo: cannot log to blah/blah at
> LOG_TO( name );
> called from
> <function>( <arguments> ) called from read-eval-loop
> Entering break read-eval-print loop ...
> you can 'quit;' to quit to outer loop, or
> you can 'return;' to continue
> brk> # ^D pressed, then:
> gap> LogTo();
> LogTo: can not close the logfile at
> CLOSE_LOG_TO(  );
> gap> LogTo("blah");
> #I  Already logging to blah/blah
> gap>
>
> (needless to say, the file "blah" isn't even created)
>
> Same applies to InputLogTo.
>
>
> Thanks for attention to this,
> Dima
>
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