print date&time every time it is executed

[O-ring]

Hello everyone,

a useful feature to have would be, for sockperf, to write the date and time (in UTC format) each time a test is run.

Cheers,
Marco

[ChrisCoe]

A user could run something like date for UTC time so not sure why feature is needed in sockperf. Would date && <sockperf cmd> work for your case? Are you looking for date/time at a specific state of a run? If so, then a change like that could be useful.

[O-ring]

Hello Chris,

thanks for the response.

yes, I think it is useful that sockperf prints the date
and time of when the test is run. Sometimes I forget to
run 'date' and so I can't track back to when the test
was run.

For example 'iperf3' always prints date and time on
every test.

Marco

[ChrisCoe]

Hi Maro,

Gotcha, sounds reasonable to me.

I can work on this so UTC date/time is present at the start of each run (whether client or server).
I'll try to get this in within a month from now (busy at the moment). Please feel free to jump in and make the change if you like.

My suggestion: Change should happen in src/sockperf.ccp, specifically right after line

sockperf/src/sockperf.cpp

Line 3563 in e92a870

log_msg(MAGNETA "== version #%s == " ENDCOLOR, VERSION);

This way the UTC time is printed out before server/client distinction is made.
Pseudo Code:

// Display UTC date and time 
 log_msg("<UTC TIME>");  

Example of current output where first line has version log:

-Christian

[O-ring]

Hello Christian,

thanks for the response. I will wait for your update.

Marco