ack florian

[oweals/gnunet.git] / src / util / common_logging.c

diff --git a/src/util/common_logging.c b/src/util/common_logging.c
index ecbe694439cb48bf6778f4c1f692d33a48b9d0fe..a391d0b9e686e0edb44fe0ab35c5ee4cb9a2ec1e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/util/common_logging.c
+++ b/src/util/common_logging.c
@@ -801,12 +801,26 @@ output_message (enum GNUNET_ErrorType kind,
   if ( (NULL != GNUNET_stderr) &&
        (NULL == loggers) )
   {
-    FPRINTF (GNUNET_stderr,
+    if (kind == GNUNET_ERROR_TYPE_MESSAGE) {
+       /* The idea here is to produce "normal" output messages
+        * for end users while still having the power of the
+        * logging engine for developer needs. So ideally this
+        * is what it should look like when CLI tools are used
+        * interactively, yet the same message shouldn't look 
+        * this way if the output is going to logfiles or robots
+        * instead. Is this the right place to do this? --lynX
+        */
+       FPRINTF (GNUNET_stderr,
+             "* %s",
+             msg);
+    } else {
+       FPRINTF (GNUNET_stderr,
              "%s %s %s %s",
              datestr,
              comp,
              GNUNET_error_type_to_string (kind),
              msg);
+    }
     fflush (GNUNET_stderr);
   }
   pos = loggers;