GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

[Alexander Ploumistos]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Björn Persson <Bjorn at rombobjörn.se> wrote:

> Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
> >On the other hand, if every message that was not meant for the user
> >were suppressed, it would be very difficult to troubleshoot such a
> >program, should an actual bug come along, because you would need a
> >different build to get useful output in the console or a logging
> >service.
>
> Nah, it takes only a command line parameter to turn on debug logging. An
> environment variable could also be used. A different build isn't needed.
> It's no harder to make logging conditional at run time than it is to
> make it conditional at build time.
>

The programs mentioned above do not have a debugging or verbosity flag,
like e.g. "nmap -dd". The output can help pinpoint anything from minor
aesthetic glitches, like a missing gtk theme, to crashes at startup. And
that is a lot faster than querying the environment or running debuggers.
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