[tor-bugs] #21542 [Applications/Tor Launcher]: use Subprocess.jsm to launch tor
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#21542: use Subprocess.jsm to launch tor
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Reporter: mcs | Owner: brade
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Launcher | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: tbb-usability, ff52-esr | Actual Points:
Parent ID: #10059 | Points:
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by mcs):
Replying to [comment:4 arma]:
> Sounds plausible!
>
> Right now Tor has a hard-coded log to stdout that it adds during
startup, but we could -- hm. I was going to say we could make it
configurable, but that won't work. I guess Tor Browser could patch Tor
before building it, to make that stdout into a stderr?
Firefox's Subprocess.jsm allows access to both stdout and stderr, so I
don't think the network team needs to make any changes. I just assumed the
log was being sent to stderr. Is anything sent to stderr?
Obviously the advantage of this approach (capture tor's stdout) over the
one described in ticket:10059#comment:17 is that in most cases
'''something''' will be logged to stdout even if tor never gets to the
point of opening a control port listener.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21542#comment:5>
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