What are the numbers in the square brackets in NSLog() output?

Question

What is the stuff between the [] in the log message below? I get this in my iPhone app, and I have no idea where the message is coming from. My first guess woul

Answer 1

The first number is the process ID, the second is the logging thread's Mach port. A desktop example:

2010-10-19 17:37:13.189 nc_init[28617:a0f] nc <CFNotificationCenter 0x10010d170 [0x7fff70d96f20]> - default <CFNotificationCenter 0x10010d2a0 [0x7fff70d96f20]>

(gdb) i thread
Thread 1 has current state "WAITING"
    Mach port #0xa0f (gdb port #0x4203)
    frame 0: main () at nc_init.m:10
    pthread ID: 0x7fff70ebfc20
    system-wide unique thread id: 0x167b49
    dispatch queue name: "com.apple.main-thread"
    dispatch queue flags: 0x0
    total user time: 13232000
    total system time: 16099000
    scaled cpu usage percentage: 0
    scheduling policy in effect: 0x1
    run state: 0x3 (WAITING)
    flags: 0x0
    number of seconds that thread has slept: 0
    current priority: 31
    max priority: 63
    suspend count: 0.

(gdb) p/x (int)mach_thread_self()
$1 = 0xa0f

Notice how 0xa0f is reported as the thread's Mach port.

Answer 2

The first number is the process ID, as the others have said. The second number is the thread ID, at least I'm pretty sure that's what it is...

Answer 3

It's a process ID in fact. You can see that in the GDB console with a line somewhere that should read "[Switching to process 376]".

Answer 4

first number is the process ID, unsure about second, this line will precede every line thats printed to console from your application.

Possibly a NSLog(@""); is causing this.

Is your application running or has it crashed by this stage?