[tor-bugs] #18846 [Core Tor/Tor]: Tor never shut up even the user set Log level ERROR.

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#18846: Tor never shut up even the user set Log level ERROR.
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 Reporter:  ikurua22      |          Owner:
     Type:  defect        |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:  not a bug
 Keywords:                |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                |         Points:
 Reviewer:                |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by teor):

 * status:  new => closed
 * type:  task => defect
 * resolution:   => not a bug


Comment:

 This is a feature, not a bug.

 Tor writes its initial log messages to stdout, while caching a copy of
 them.
 It then parses its config, and flushes the cache to the configured log.

 Writing the initial output to stdout is a feature, in case tor crashes on
 startup.
 We can't wait until we've parsed the config to write log messages.

 Please start your tor as:
 `tor > /dev/null`
 to achieve the results you want.

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