[patch] make the logging header customisable

Matthieu Patou mat at matws.net
Wed May 22 10:59:05 MDT 2013


On 05/19/2013 10:06 AM, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Find attached an updated version of this, feedback and review welcome.
>
>
> On 06/12/2012 01:27 AM, Matthieu Patou wrote:
>> Hello Volker & all,
>>
>> A couple of months ago we briefly discussed on the possibility to 
>> have a header printed even if we log on the stdout because with more 
>> than 1 process logging it can be a bit tedious sometime to understand 
>> who print what.
>> My understanding was that you were more or less ok with this idea but 
>> that instead of adding a simple boolean to say "add headers also when 
>> logging to stdout" you proposed me (at least that was my 
>> understanding) to be able to specify the header that we want to have.
>> I've been working on this lately and come with the following patch 
>> for the 3.5.x branch, it seems to work ok as if the "debug header 
>> template" parameter is not specified the header is as it was (which 
>> means no header in case of logging to stdout) but if you specify it 
>> then it will be as specified.
>>
>> For the moment the patch is for 3.5.14 as it's what we use at my work 
>> and it helps us during the QA and dev debug, it didn't apply yet to 
>> master but I'll do the job of front port if the idea of the patch is 
>> ok (and if it's also at least mostly ok).
>>
>> Matthieu.
Any body on this patch ? should I push it directly to autobuild ?

Matthieu.


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