[PATCH libevdev 8/9] Log to stdout by default

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Mon Sep 9 16:42:40 PDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:05:19PM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > The logging we do use atm inside the library is largely
> > to spot application errors. Log that to stdout by default so
> > it doesn't get lost.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> > ---
> 
> Why stdout rather than stderr?
> 
> With stderr, we have the bugs/logs even if the user redirect the
> output to a file, which has 90% of chances to be what's happening with
> evemu.
> 
> Other than that:
> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires at gmail.com>

thanks. amended to "fprintf(stderr, " and friends

Cheers,
   Peter


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