[Mono-list] Diagnostic Messages

[Paolo Molaro]

On 05/26/02 Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> So I'm not sure if `syslog' is a better solution.  However, I don't know
> much about `syslog' either, so I'm interested in hearing more.  However,
> it seems that `System.Diagnostics.EventLog' and related classes would
> probably be a closer fit to `syslog' than the `Trace' and `Debug'
> classes.

I think the Trace and Debug facilities you want can be easily supported
with and environment variable: the code will look it up and set the
filestream where the output should go:

export MONO_TRACE=debug,trace=/dev/null

would mean that debug is enabled (and the output goes to stderr) and
trace is enabled and the output goes to the file named /dev/null.
If either debug or trace is not mentioned in the var or if it's not set,
you get no output. This is a runtime library issue, so there should be
no switches for it in mono/mint.
Anyone that wants to submit a patch to implement this?

That said, I don't think the Debug and Trace classes should be used in
the libraries (certainly not in corlib).

lupus

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