Bug#610679: deutex: please log to /dev/null by default
RjY
rjy at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Jan 21 09:15:34 UTC 2011
Package: deutex
Version: 4.4.902-12
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
deutex by default writes a copy of stdout/stderr to a file named
"deutex.log" in the current directory. I wonder if you might consider
disabling this, since you generally run it yourself from a terminal or
via a Makefile, and can use shell redirection to capture its output (or,
of course, an explicit "-log" option.)
I think the log output by default is a bit of a DOSism, really, left
over from the program's origins on that platform, since DOS doesn't
have such good shell redirection capabilities and so forth.
The easiest patch is, I think, to log to /dev/null:
Index: deutex-4.4.902/src/deutex.c
===================================================================
--- deutex-4.4.902.orig/src/deutex.c 2011-01-17 13:18:18.773051186 +0000
+++ deutex-4.4.902/src/deutex.c 2011-01-17 13:19:07.337049340 +0000
@@ -96,11 +96,14 @@
const char *debug_ident = NULL;
int old_music_ident_method = 0;
const char *palette_lump = "PLAYPAL";
+#if 0
#if defined DeuTex
const char *logfile = "deutex.log";
#elif defined DeuSF
const char *logfile = "deusf.log";
#endif
+#endif
+const char *logfile = "/dev/null";
static char anon[1] = { '\0' };
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