[0.6.x PATCH] Make output logging to file usable on *NIX platforms

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sat Dec 8 23:25:39 EST 2007


On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:43:10PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Add a .config option for enabling the output logging, and add a
> command-line option for turning this on or off (output is logged to
> stdout by default still).  Also set the buffering mode to line-buffered
> on *NIX platforms so that output shows up in a reasonable timeframe.
> Otherwise it gets buffered in 4096 byte chunks (or whatever the C
> library uses for buffer sizes) and doesn't get written in a useful
> amount of time.

Thanks! Applied with some minor cleanup and added documentation to both
0.6.x and 0.5.x. Please note that I usually use git-cherry-pick to get
changes from 0.6.x to 0.5.x so separate patches for 0.5.x are not
necessary unless there is a large number of conflicts that are not
trivial to resolve.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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