[libcamera-devel] [PATCH 2/5] libcamera: base: log: Replace stderr with std::cerr in documentation

[paul.elder at ideasonboard.com]

Hi Laurent,

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 01:25:00AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart via libcamera-devel wrote:
> While std::cerr and stderr both target the same file by default, this
> may be overridden by applications. Update the documentation to use
> std::cerr instead of stderr to be accurate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>

Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder at ideasonboard.com>

> ---
>  src/libcamera/base/log.cpp | 11 ++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/libcamera/base/log.cpp b/src/libcamera/base/log.cpp
> index df84ba4e8328..9ae62368a54d 100644
> --- a/src/libcamera/base/log.cpp
> +++ b/src/libcamera/base/log.cpp
> @@ -46,11 +46,11 @@
>   * their category are output to the log, while other messages are silently
>   * discarded.
>   *
> - * By default log messages are output to stderr. They can be redirected to a log
> - * file by setting the LIBCAMERA_LOG_FILE environment variable to the name of
> - * the file. The file must be writable and is truncated if it exists. If any
> + * By default log messages are output to std::cerr. They can be redirected to a
> + * log file by setting the LIBCAMERA_LOG_FILE environment variable to the name
> + * of the file. The file must be writable and is truncated if it exists. If any
>   * error occurs when opening the file, the file is ignored and the log is output
> - * to stderr.
> + * to std::cerr.
>   */
>  
>  /**
> @@ -527,7 +527,8 @@ Logger::Logger()
>   * If the LIBCAMERA_LOG_FILE environment variable is set, open the file it
>   * points to and redirect the logger output to it. If the environment variable
>   * is set to "syslog", then the logger output will be directed to syslog. Errors
> - * are silently ignored and don't affect the logger output (set to stderr).
> + * are silently ignored and don't affect the logger output (set to std::cerr by
> + * default).
>   */
>  void Logger::parseLogFile()
>  {