How to redefine clog to tee to original clog and a log file?

Question

I saw a useful start here:

http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~imaman/programs/teestream.html

And it works great to make a new stream which goes to both clog and a

Answer 1

I would just use the Boost iostreams stuff to do it.

#include
#include
#include
#include


int main(const int a_argc, const char *a_args[])
{
    namespace io = boost::iostreams;
    typedef io::tee_device TeeDevice;
    typedef io::stream TeeStream;

    std::ofstream flog("logFile.txt");
    //We need to copy clog, otherwise we get infinite recursion
    //later on when we reassign clog's rdbuf.
    std::ostream clogCopy(std::clog.rdbuf());

    TeeDevice logTee(flog, clogCopy);
    TeeStream logTeeStream(logTee);

    logTeeStream << "This text gets clogged and flogged." << std::endl;

    //Modify clog to automatically go through the tee.
    std::streambuf *originalRdBuf = std::clog.rdbuf(logTeeStream.rdbuf());  

    std::clog << "This text doesn't only get clogged, it's flogged too." << std::endl;

    std::clog.rdbuf(originalRdBuf);
    std::clog << "This text avoids flogging." << std::endl;
}