commit a55443937037a8c1f1655aaefc1ca8bb4c0a0f34 Author: David Fifield <david@bamsoftware.com> Date: Tue Dec 18 21:24:32 2018 -0700 Link to #26360 for why we blackhole logs without -log. Maybe we'll able to remove this in the far future. --- client/snowflake.go | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/client/snowflake.go b/client/snowflake.go index b2dea5c..006de6b 100644 --- a/client/snowflake.go +++ b/client/snowflake.go @@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ func main() { defer logFile.Close() log.SetOutput(logFile) } else { + // Don't write to stderr; versions of tor earlier than about + // 0.3.5.6 do not read from the pipe, and eventually we will + // deadlock because the buffer is full. + // https://bugs.torproject.org/26360 + // https://bugs.torproject.org/25600#comment:14 log.SetOutput(ioutil.Discard) }