From b85699a02706ee6d0b322888bf5da1c8906134dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Mohrhard <markus.mohrhard@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:54:34 +0100
Subject: add an option to pipe log output to file

The target file and the option are controlled by SAL_LOG_FILE. The
variable should contain the target file in a system dependent notation.

Change-Id: Ie1ce9c39740c8b7a989e5af222be21a3e3142084
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/32176
Tested-by: Jenkins <ci@libreoffice.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Mohrhard <markus.mohrhard@googlemail.com>
---
 sal/osl/all/log.cxx | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'sal')

diff --git a/sal/osl/all/log.cxx b/sal/osl/all/log.cxx
index 00bd67cbb759..b400e43ab164 100644
--- a/sal/osl/all/log.cxx
+++ b/sal/osl/all/log.cxx
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <fstream>
 
 #include "osl/thread.hxx"
 #include "rtl/string.h"
@@ -86,8 +87,8 @@ char const * getEnvironmentVariable() {
 
 #else
 
-char const * getEnvironmentVariable_() {
-    char const * p1 = std::getenv("SAL_LOG");
+char const * getEnvironmentVariable_(const char* env) {
+    char const * p1 = std::getenv(env);
     if (p1 == nullptr) {
         return nullptr;
     }
@@ -99,10 +100,15 @@ char const * getEnvironmentVariable_() {
 }
 
 char const * getEnvironmentVariable() {
-    static char const * env = getEnvironmentVariable_();
+    static char const * env = getEnvironmentVariable_("SAL_LOG");
     return env;
 }
 
+char const * getLogFile() {
+    static char const * logFile = getEnvironmentVariable_("SAL_LOG_FILE");
+    return logFile;
+}
+
 void maybeOutputTimestamp(std::ostringstream &s) {
     char const * env = getEnvironmentVariable();
     if (env == nullptr)
@@ -339,8 +345,15 @@ void log(
         syslog(prio, "%s", s.str().c_str());
 #endif
     } else {
-        std::fputs(s.str().c_str(), stderr);
-        std::fflush(stderr);
+        const char* logFile = getLogFile();
+        if (logFile) {
+            std::ofstream file(logFile, std::ios::app | std::ios::out);
+            file << s.str();
+        }
+        else {
+            std::fputs(s.str().c_str(), stderr);
+            std::fflush(stderr);
+        }
     }
 #endif
 }
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