[Freeipmi-devel] Re: dump to file

[Anand Babu]

Albert Chu <address@hidden> writes:

>> 1) Why not let those functions dump to file. We can also pass "stderr"
>>   or "stdout" if we want it on console.
>
> Yeah, I'm thinking you're right on this.  We should pass a "stream"
> parameter, and the stream parameter can be to a stream to anything ...

Lets pass file descriptor. If some one wants stream, he can pass 
fileno (stderr) otherwise just 2 or DEBUG_DEFAULT_FILE (macro for 2)

>> 2) Do we need prefix every line with redundant "prefix err" ?
>
> In ipmipower, someone can do
>
> ./ipmipower -h nodes[0-5] --on
>
> And packets are sent out and received in parallel.  In ipmipower, I
> originally wrote the _dump functions with "Hostname = foobarnode" at the
> begining of each packet dump, to differentiate which packets were
> sent/recved from which hosts.  But I felt that this is difficult to look
> at.  I think the prefix will make it easier to look at.  What do ya think??

Lets have the prefix string. If prefix is NULL, then ignore the " : " as well.

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