[bind10-dev] Ticket 1704 (Log output mixed)

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:12:42 +0200,
Michal 'vorner' Vaner <michal.vaner at nic.cz> wrote:

> > I suggest that we do (1) (and take the opportunity to make output to
> > stdout the default) and (3).
> 
> I agree with (3), we should definitely do that.
> 
> The (2) is tricky. It should be possible to do, I guess cerr is just the same
> kind of object as cout, just constructed with a different fd and configuration.
> But you're right something might expect it to be unbuffered, so we should not
> give the surprise.
> 
> And I don't like (1) either. As a user, I don't expect logging to go to stdout,
> I expect it to appear on stderr. Therefore doing (1) would be a surprise for the
> user. And if the user wants to keep the logs, he should configure logging to a
> file anyway I think, so the problem is not that large. So I propose we don't do
> (1), only mention the workaround to switch to stdout or file output if the user
> has the problem.

Overall I think I agree with these, including about the reasons.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.