Logging and debug screwing up things in clitar ...

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

i went through smbclient/BRANCH_NTDOM replacing the DEBUG() calls with
printf calls, due to the silly assumption that DEBUG() would always go to
stdout.

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> > I have looked at util.c, and there, if we are interactive, it sets dbf to
> > stdout, which seems a tad wrong.  I suggest that debug output should go out
> > on stderr.
> > 
> > Can anyone suggest why it should not be so?
> 
> the way it works currently is users can ask for it to go to stderr by
> using the -E option. Most scripts would want to do this.
> 
> It goes to stdout merely for backward compatibility with badly thought
> out original code.
> 
>     Cheers, Tridge
> 

<a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.anu.edu.au" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton  </a>
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