[SCIM] Bug#280374: scim: spews to standard output

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi, 

Aron, please confirm you had problem with ssh-askpass.

I do not understand Zhe's comment either ...

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:31:27AM +0800, Zhe Su wrote:
> SCIM 1.0.1 won't print anything to stdout when starting.

I think Aaron said "logs a bunch of messages to standard output, and
as such interferes badly with programs such as ssh-askpass". I think
scim is started before ssh-askpass on his machine.

To the eyes of untrained C++ reader, std::cout certainly looks like
these output messages are sent out.  You mean these output are handled
properly in object oriented C++ way so there should be no problem with
ssh-askpass?

What is the problem sending message to std::cerr?

> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 08:06:04 +0100, Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
> > Does the following bug report fixed in CVS?
> > 
> > ----- Forwarded message from "Aaron M. Ucko" <ucko at debian.org> -----
> > 
> > From: "Aaron M. Ucko" <ucko at debian.org>
> > Subject: Bug#280374: scim: spews to standard output
> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> > Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:53:59 -0500
> > X-CRM114-Status: Good  ( pR: 60.3820 )
> > 
> > Package: scim
> > Version: 1.0.1-1
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> > The latest version of scim logs a bunch of messages to standard
> > output, and as such interferes badly with programs such as ssh-askpass
> > that should NOT produce any output besides what the user entered.
> > 
> > Here's a patch that redirects the messages to standard error, where
> > they're at least more or less tolerable (though one still has to make
> > sure the scim daemon's already running, or else it will spew
> > troublesome messages of its own).
> > 
> > --- scim-1.0.1.orig/src/scim_backend.cpp
> > +++ scim-1.0.1/src/scim_backend.cpp
> > @@ -773,14 +773,14 @@
> > 
> >      //load IMEngine modules
> >      for (size_t i = 0; i < modules.size (); ++i) {
> > -        std::cout << "Loading IMEngine module: " << modules [i] << " ...\n";
> > +        std::cerr << "Loading IMEngine module: " << modules [i] << " ...\n";
> > 
> >          module_factories_count = 0;
> > 
> >          if (m_impl->m_engine_modules [i].load (modules [i], config) &&
> >              m_impl->m_engine_modules [i].valid ()) {
> >              for (size_t j=0; j < m_impl->m_engine_modules [i].number_of_factories (); ++j) {
> > -                std::cout << "    Loading IMEngine Factory " << j << " ... ";
> > +                std::cerr << "    Loading IMEngine Factory " << j << " ... ";
> > 
> >                  // Try to load a IMEngine Factory.
> >                  try {
> > @@ -799,19 +799,19 @@
> > 
> >                          all_factories_count ++;
> >                          module_factories_count ++;
> > -                        std::cout << ": OK\n";
> > +                        std::cerr << ": OK\n";
> >                      } else {
> > -                        std::cout << ": Disabled\n";
> > +                        std::cerr << ": Disabled\n";
> >                          factory.reset ();
> >                      }
> >                  } else {
> > -                    std::cout << ": Failed\n";
> > +                    std::cerr << ": Failed\n";
> >                  }
> >              }
> >              if (module_factories_count) {
> > -                std::cout << modules [i] << " IMEngine module is successfully loaded.\n";
> > +                std::cerr << modules [i] << " IMEngine module is successfully loaded.\n";
> >              } else {
> > -                std::cout << "No Factory loaded from " << modules [i] << " IMEngine module!\n";
> > +                std::cerr << "No Factory loaded from " << modules [i] << " IMEngine module!\n";
> >                  m_impl->m_engine_modules [i].unload ();
> >              }
> >          } else {
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 3.1
> >   APT prefers unstable
> >   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> > Architecture: i386 (i686)
> > Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
> > Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> > 
> > Versions of packages scim depends on:
> > ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-5        The ATK accessibility toolkit
> > ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-18   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> > ii  libgcc1                   1:3.4.2-3      GCC support library
> > ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.7-1        The GLib library of C routines
> > ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.13-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface
> > ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-4        Layout and rendering of internatio
> > ii  libstdc++5                1:3.3.5-2      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> > ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
> > ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
> > 
> > -- no debconf information
> > 
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
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