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authorLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>2022-05-25 18:48:26 +0300
committerLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>2022-06-01 12:08:39 +0300
commit8a606e6c6735be3bab2e7e06d89b72a6626e0b3a (patch)
tree9fb0c57b14bf2ed5e79ca0ba1e9335e6f5ac4f03 /src
parent95c1ff8eb61e6289c124008e7518b82821322eb6 (diff)
libcamera: base: log: Replace stderr with std::cerr in documentation
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@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Umang Jain <umang.jain@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
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-rw-r--r--src/libcamera/base/log.cpp11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/libcamera/base/log.cpp b/src/libcamera/base/log.cpp
index df84ba4e..9ae62368 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()
{