Am 12.02.2013 18:33, schrieb Peter Maydell: > Switch the default for qemu_log logging output from "/tmp/qemu.log" > to stderr. This is an incompatible change in some sense, but logging > is mostly used for debugging purposes so it shouldn't affect production > use. The previous behaviour can be obtained by adding "-D /tmp/qemu.log" > to the command line. > > This change requires us to: > * update all the documentation/help text > * make linux-user and bsd-user defer to qemu-log for the default > logging destination rather than overriding it themselves > * ensure that all logfile closing is done via qemu_log_close() > and that that function doesn't close stderr > as well as the obvious change to the behaviour of do_qemu_set_log() > when no logfile name has been specified. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > --- > Stefan suggested that qemu_log should default to stderr, and I > agree that it makes more sense than a random file in /tmp/. > As noted in the commit message, this is technically an incompatible > change.
I don't think this change is okay, it should be limited to the softmmus. Having random debug output appear on stderr may well break linux-user test suites or use cases. Regards, Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
