Re: Proposal: extension to Log interface to get error message written independently of falcon-debug-mask

[Ann W. Harrison]

> Olav Sandstaa wrote:
>>
>> Alterantive 1 (based on Ann's suggestions in an earlier email):
>> ===========
>>
>> * Introduce a new log category called "Fatal" (or something similar) 
>> that always get written to the error log independently of what the 
>> user has specified in the --falcon-debug-mask.

Rather than ignoring the falcon-debug-mask, I'd suggest that the default
value for falcon-debug-mask be whatever value is associated with fatal
errors.

Jim Starkey wrote:
>>
> The two alternative are not mutually exclusive.  The primary mechanism 
> is a new message class "Fatal".  There is also a secondary convenience 
> method Log::fatal(const char*, ...) that logs the message with that bit 
> in a manner analogous to Log::debug(const char*, ...).
> 

Having Log::fatal be a wrapper around Log::log(LogFatalError, ...)
sounds good to me.

Cheers,


Ann