From c9edf6ad787890a4340ce1e39bb2db0e075304b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yong Li <yli@clearpath.ai>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 14:43:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow disabling rosout file logging (to rosout.log)

See issue #1380.
---
 tools/rosout/rosout.cpp | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/rosout/rosout.cpp b/tools/rosout/rosout.cpp
index e1f15712b6..ae8837ca46 100644
--- a/tools/rosout/rosout.cpp
+++ b/tools/rosout/rosout.cpp
@@ -120,6 +120,12 @@ class Rosout
   {
     agg_pub_.publish(msg);
 
+    bool disable_file_logging = false;
+    if (node_.getParamCached("/rosout/disable_file_logging", disable_file_logging) && disable_file_logging)
+    {
+      return;
+    }
+
     std::stringstream ss;
     ss << msg->header.stamp << " ";
     switch (msg->level)