On Mon, 5 May 2014 06:53:09 -0400
Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 01:17:50PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> Why not?  Looking at it it seems to me that you could get this exact same
> functionality by calling rte_openlog_stream(stdout);
> 
> Neil
> 

If you have a remote console (per connection) and a thread handling
those requests you want to direct output of a command like 'show mempool'
to respond to that request. An existing file descriptor don't work they are 
global
no per thread. There is a difference between log and response to request.

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