On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:34:35PM -0700, Ildar Muslukhov wrote:
> What do you think if we combine -l, -q and -v parameters in the following
> way:
> absence of the parameter will set log level to base (1)
> -l off will work as it is right now (logging is off)
> -l N is setup of the level (i.e., -l 1 will be equal to the default
> settings, where N can be from 0 to 2 as it is right now).
>
> This way we can simplify the log handling from source code point of
> view. Having three parameters which might collide with each other
> seems rather error prone.
Combining them might mean we can't express some existing use-cases though.
Verbosity of the messages to the screen vs what gets logged to disk are kind
of separate things.
Valid right now:
logging to disk, no output to screen other than seed. (-qq)
logging to disk, output seeds & watchdog progress counter (-q)
logging to disk, syscall details (no args)
logging to disk, verbose output (-v)
and 'no log' variants of all.
I'm not sure we can really express 8 possibilities into one arg and
without people needing to look up what the values represent.
Dave
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