Re: streamdevice error messages

[Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

On 4/9/21 4:05 AM, Ben Franksen via Tech-talk wrote:
> Is there a way in streamdevice to
> 
> (a) turn off coloring of messages?
> (b) turn off the timestamps added to messages?
> 
> Rationale: we log everything happening on an IOC's console and the color
> escape codes make the logs hard to read.

I've been trying out the idea of adding color in the IOC core
to make error messages during iocInit more apparent.  To avoid
the complaint you make in the case of errlog, I add some code
which strips out some ANSI escape sequences prior to logging.

https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/pull/113

Of course this is no help for eg. procserv or screen.
Although, in the case of procserv some similar stripping
could be added.


> Also, the logging already
> inserts a timestamp, so the extra timestamp added by streamdevice gets
> in the way.
> 
> Cheers
> Ben
>