Re: [9front] exportfs: fix debug logging

[Amavect <amavect@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 18:29:16 +0200
kvik@a-b.xyz wrote:
> This is a nice simplification.  Perhaps you could take a chance to
> rename the -d flag to -D for consistency with most other file servers.
Let's move renaming -d to -D for another patch. Then we can do it all
at once. In the meantime, I would like my patch committed (please).


On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:55:10 +0200
kvik@a-b.xyz wrote:
> I do realize now that exportfs mixes the 9p trace and general debug
> output, so maybe -d is more appropriate after all.
My conception is that -d and -D do the same thing, which is whitebox
debugging both the program's actions and its communications that
trigger those actions.


On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 01:20:39 -0400
ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> Yeah. it's just a convention (though
> I often wish that we'd taken a more
> out of the way character for this,
> like -δ. :/)
I support this notion, but I don't have any concrete examples of
mnemonics that would be better suited for -d than "debug" or
"directory". -D is simple enough to free -d for more common tasks.
(Alternatively, debug could be a compile flag, but we chose convenience
over needing to recompile.)


Thanks,
Amavect