On Sun, 4 May 2014 08:20:54 -0400 Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 04:42:56PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > The DPDK dump functions are useful for remote debugging of an > > applications. But when application runs as a daemon, stdout > > is typically routed to /dev/null. > > > > Instead change all these functions to take a stdio FILE * handle > > instead. An application can then use open_memstream() to capture > > the output. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> > > > Why not convert these to rte_log calls? Seems like we already have the > infrastrucutre here, we just need to use it. > Neil > Because it is useful to have remote console like functionatlity, and dumping this to log doesn't work for that.
