I'm trying to write output to a file whenever I print something to the console. There didn't seem to be any nice examples out there using a continuous stream, but rather reading a single value so I came up with the following code:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io"
"os"
)
type ahhh struct {
*os.File
__writer io.Writer
}
func (me *ahhh) Write(b []byte) (n int, err error) {
return me.__writer.Write(b)
}
func write_print_to_file(file_name string) {
file, _ := os.OpenFile(file_name, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE|os.O_APPEND, 0666)
new_stdout := &ahhh{file, io.MultiWriter(file, os.Stdout)}
os.Stdout = new_stdout
}
func main() {
write_print_to_file("output.log")
fmt.Println("Hello world!")
}
For some reason os.Stdout = new_stdout
doesn't want to work. I'm fairly certain this should be an allowed assignment as I use something of similar structure in my FUSE file system, so I'm curious why os.Stdout
doesn't want to accept my inherited os.File
.
Alternatively if this really isn't possible any good suggestions for making a continuous data stream to a file?
$ go doc os.stdout var ( Stdin = NewFile(uintptr(syscall.Stdin), "/dev/stdin") Stdout = NewFile(uintptr(syscall.Stdout), "/dev/stdout") Stderr = NewFile(uintptr(syscall.Stderr), "/dev/stderr") ) Stdin, Stdout, and Stderr are open Files pointing to the standard input, standard output, and standard error file descriptors. Note that the Go runtime writes to standard error for panics and crashes; closing Stderr may cause those messages to go elsewhere, perhaps to a file opened later.
$ go doc os.newfile func NewFile(fd uintptr, name string) *File NewFile returns a new File with the given file descriptor and name. The returned value will be nil if fd is not a valid file descriptor. On Unix systems, if the file descriptor is in non-blocking mode, NewFile will attempt to return a pollable File (one for which the SetDeadline methods work).
$ go doc -u os.file type File struct { *file // os specific } File represents an open file descriptor. func Create(name string) (*File, error) func NewFile(fd uintptr, name string) *File func Open(name string) (*File, error) func OpenFile(name string, flag int, perm FileMode) (*File, error) func newFile(fd uintptr, name string, kind newFileKind) *File func openFdAt(fd int, path string) (*File, error) func openFileNolog(name string, flag int, perm FileMode) (*File, error) func (f *File) Chdir() error func (f *File) Chmod(mode FileMode) error func (f *File) Chown(uid, gid int) error func (f *File) Close() error func (f *File) Fd() uintptr func (f *File) Name() string func (f *File) Read(b []byte) (n int, err error) func (f *File) ReadAt(b []byte, off int64) (n int, err error) func (f *File) Readdir(n int) ([]FileInfo, error) func (f *File) Readdirnames(n int) (names []string, err error) func (f *File) Seek(offset int64, whence int) (ret int64, err error) func (f *File) SetDeadline(t time.Time) error func (f *File) SetReadDeadline(t time.Time) error func (f *File) SetWriteDeadline(t time.Time) error func (f *File) Stat() (FileInfo, error) func (f *File) Sync() error func (f *File) SyscallConn() (syscall.RawConn, error) func (f *File) Truncate(size int64) error func (f *File) Write(b []byte) (n int, err error) func (f *File) WriteAt(b []byte, off int64) (n int, err error) func (f *File) WriteString(s string) (n int, err error) func (f *File) checkValid(op string) error func (f *File) chmod(mode FileMode) error func (file File) close() error func (f *File) pread(b []byte, off int64) (n int, err error) func (f *File) pwrite(b []byte, off int64) (n int, err error) func (f *File) read(b []byte) (n int, err error) func (f *File) readdir(n int) (fi []FileInfo, err error) func (f *File) readdirnames(n int) (names []string, err error) func (f *File) seek(offset int64, whence int) (ret int64, err error) func (f *File) setDeadline(t time.Time) error func (f *File) setReadDeadline(t time.Time) error func (f *File) setWriteDeadline(t time.Time) error func (f *File) wrapErr(op string, err error) error func (f *File) write(b []byte) (n int, err error) type file struct { pfd poll.FD name string dirinfo *dirInfo // nil unless directory being read nonblock bool // whether we set nonblocking mode stdoutOrErr bool // whether this is stdout or stderr } file is the real representation of *File. The extra level of indirection ensures that no clients of os can overwrite this data, which could cause the finalizer to close the wrong file descriptor. func (file *file) close() error
I'm fairly certain this should be an allowed assignment.
new_stdout := &ahhh{file, io.MultiWriter(file, os.Stdout)} os.Stdout = new_stdout
Is it an *os.File
? No. Why should it be allowed?