[Spice-devel] log file for spice-gtk

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:23:28AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:14:15AM +0200, Yonit Halperin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Are there any plans to have a log file for spice-gtk?
> > I think that it is very important to have logging with configurable
> > debug level via a configuration file. It will be helpful for live
> > debugging of user problems that are hard to reproduce.
> > 
> > I also saw there was some discussion about .spicec directory. It is
> > used by the old client for logs and also for holding the certificate
> > files. (In windows machine it is in %APPDATA%/spicec)
> 
> IMHO libraries have no business creating logfiles of their own
> accord. It should be entirely in the control of applications
> using the libraries to decide on logging policy.
> 
> For virt-viewer you can enable debugging of various areas with
> flags --spice-gtk-debug, --gtk-vnc-debug and --debug. There are
> also env variables which can control logging in newer GLib
> versions

OK, so I think there is place to make remote-viewer produce a log file
by default.

1. For any hard to reproduce error there will be a log file by default.
2. Users who were used to spicec.log will have a remote-viewer.log

I haven't noticed any easy way to set a fd different then stderr for
debugging output though, maybe someone can help?

> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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