On final analysis, it appears the effective fix is clearing out leftover lager state in the application controller.
Along the way, the test body was modified to account for the runtime system, and as this doesn't seem like a bad thing it's left in place.

This commit also moves `otp_version/0` to `lager_util`'s public API, as it may be helpful in future tests that check for version-specific messages (see issue #383).

Uses lager_util:create_test_dir/0 and lager_util:delete_test_dir/1 to give tests, or groups thereof, their own clean directory to work in.
Turn off whitespace diffs to review, as much code is shifted left to allow sane wrapping within around 100 columns.

Change rotate_file_test/0 and rotate_file_fail_test/0 to use temporary test directories.
Refactor rotate_file_test/0 to be marginally understandable.
Fix rotate_file_fail_test/0 to use 'chmod', as intended, instead of 'chown'.

This allows users to log metadata (tuple list) without a format string in lager. For
example `lager:info([{foo, bar}])` instead of `lager:info([{foo,bar}], "")`.

Fix dialyzer warnings

Add `| undefined` to records that get initialized with not all their
fields set to the proper type (hence get the value undefined). These
fixes allow lager to exist as a dependency in a project and be filtered
through that project's dialyzer run without warnings.

BORS seems to be out to lunch - going to merge manually after rebasing on top of master

Restore backwards-compatible `lager_file_backend` configurations.

Reviewed-by: macintux

mark for no crash log

Reviewed-by: JeetKunDoug

The strict configuration work in 31cf6c0 prevents some
backwards-compatible code in lager_file_backend from working as the
configuration is rejected before it gets to the backend. This fix adds
an additional guard on `check_handler_config/2` to support the `tuple`
configuration structure supported by `lager_file_backend`.

Fixed legacy support for {crash_log, undefined}

Reviewed-by: JeetKunDoug

Introduces the option to have severity logged in uppercase letters, as is usual for other programs logging to syslog, for example.

Applications that explicitly configure lager's `crash_log` with the
value `undefined` will get a really terrible crash message for all
versions since 81222ca486

Diff here: 81222ca486 (diff-25e915f0df09d04052d2a6e85b8824f2)

That message looks like this:

```
** Generic server lager_crash_log terminating
** Last message in was rotate
** When Server state == {state,undefined,
                              {file_descriptor,prim_file,{#Port<0.1340>,15}},
                              281571,65536,10485760,
                              [{hour,0}],
                              5,false}
** Reason for termination ==
** {badarg,[{erlang,'++',[undefined,".3"],[]},
           {lager_util,rotate_logfile,2,
                       [{file,"_build/default/lib/lager/src/lager_util.erl"},
                        {line,220}]},
           {lager_crash_log,handle_info,2,
                            [{file,"_build/default/lib/lager/src/lager_crash_log.erl"},
                             {line,99}]},
           {gen_server,try_dispatch,4,[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,601}]},
           {gen_server,handle_msg,5,[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,667}]},
           {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,247}]}]}
```

This fix will allow people who use this legacy configuration to not
experience production crashes at midnight after the deploy, when
crash_log tries to rotate for the very first time, resulting in trying
to append `.Int` to `undefined`

Cleanup for test, whitespace

Reviewed-by: javajolt

* Make lager_handler_watcher test more resilient by scanning for
  messages of interest rather than assuming we know exactly what
  messages will arrive at the test backend

Fix get_env bug

Support typed records newly exposed in OTP 19

Reviewed-by: macintux

Incorporate an optional 'sink killer' for load shedding purposes

Reviewed-by: bsparrow435

Lager logs its own application start up message. Previously
this message was discarded or not received quickly enough
to cause test failures, but now it seems as though it
is being received and causing several test failures
even though we are explicitly flushing it away.

We introduce a 5 millisecond sleep for several tests
to make sure the start up message is received before the
flush command dumps it.

Previously, was always hardcoded to the default sink name.

Previously, configuration would come from application:get_env/3 or
proplists:get_value/3. Now we standardize on a single format
for retrieving values from the environment or from a proplist.

Signed-off-by: Brian L. Troutwine <brian.troutwine@adroll.com>

Signed-off-by: Brian L. Troutwine <brian.troutwine@adroll.com>

This is, perhaps, not the most ideal setup. It still ignores other
sinks but does bring logging back online after the appropriate delay.

Signed-off-by: Brian L. Troutwine <brian.troutwine@adroll.com>

This test only passes when run in isolation. That is, if you run the
suite solo everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. When run in the
group, it fails. By inspection it seems that no trace messages are
being sent and this causes the failure, for want of specific traces.

Signed-off-by: Brian L. Troutwine <brian.troutwine@adroll.com>

At this point in the work, the killer will correctly stop the
DEFAULT_SINK in the event of overload but our friend never comes back
up and lager stops working past this point.

Oops!

Error message:

=SUPERVISOR REPORT==== 10-Mar-2016::16:18:11 ===
     Supervisor: {local,lager_handler_watcher_sup}
     Context:    child_terminated
     Reason:     killed
     Offender:   [{pid,<0.63.0>},
                  {id,lager_handler_watcher},
                  {mfargs,{lager_handler_watcher,start_link,undefined}},
                  {restart_type,temporary},
                  {shutdown,5000},
                  {child_type,worker}]

=SUPERVISOR REPORT==== 10-Mar-2016::16:18:11 ===
     Supervisor: {local,lager_handler_watcher_sup}
     Context:    child_terminated
     Reason:     killed
     Offender:   [{pid,<0.59.0>},
                  {id,lager_handler_watcher},
                  {mfargs,{lager_handler_watcher,start_link,undefined}},
                  {restart_type,temporary},
                  {shutdown,5000},
                  {child_type,worker}]

=PROGRESS REPORT==== 10-Mar-2016::16:18:11 ===
          supervisor: {local,lager_sup}
             started: [{pid,<0.113.0>},
                       {id,lager},
                       {mfargs,{gen_event,start_link,[{local,lager_event}]}},
                       {restart_type,permanent},
                       {shutdown,5000},
                       {child_type,worker}]

Signed-off-by: Brian L. Troutwine <brian@troutwine.us>