https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/tags/bugs/ Recent content in Bugs on Nikhil's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:39:39 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2018/linux-main-thread-name/ Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:39:39 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2018/linux-main-thread-name/ On typical days, we software engineers are usually stuck due to head scratching bugs, instead of actually writing interesting software. I had made some small changes and suddenly our end-to-end tests were timing out, with no useful clues. The harness emits a crazy number of log lines, so digging through them was difficult. Fortunately, the problem was easily reproduceable on a local VM and with some piecemeal commenting I was able to isolate it to changing the thread name of the main thread, that I had done for some debugging information.