Not all entries in etc/controlDict InfoSwitches can be overwritten in the system/controlDict

Functionality to add/problem to solve

Not all entries in etc/controlDict InfoSwitches can be overwritten in the system/controlDict

• grep for all occurences of infoSwitch
• subtract all occurences of registerInfoSwitch

and the following seem to be unimplemented:

OpenFOAM/db/IOobjects/IOdictionary/baseIOdictionary.C:    debug::infoSwitch("writeDictionaries", 0)
OpenFOAM/db/IOstreams/IOstreams.C:    Foam::debug::infoSwitch("writePrecision", 6)
OpenFOAM/db/Time/Time.C:    Foam::debug::infoSwitch("printExecutionFormat", 0)
OpenFOAM/db/dictionary/dictionary.C:    Foam::debug::infoSwitch("writeOptionalEntries", 0)
OpenFOAM/db/dictionary/entry/entry.C:    Foam::debug::infoSwitch("disableFunctionEntries", 0)
OpenFOAM/db/dynamicLibrary/dynamicCode/dynamicCode.C:    Foam::debug::infoSwitch("allowSystemOperations", 0)
OpenFOAM/global/JobInfo/JobInfo.C:bool Foam::JobInfo::writeJobInfo(Foam::debug::infoSwitch("writeJobInfo", 0));
OpenFOAM/global/profiling/profiling.C:int Foam::profiling::allowed(Foam::debug::infoSwitch("allowProfiling", 1));
OpenFOAM/primitives/strings/fileName/fileName.C:    Foam::debug::infoSwitch("allowSpaceInFileName", 0)

@Prashant

added feature label

changed the description

The dictionary::writeOptionalEntries might result in a circular dependency since the debug switches itself uses the dictionary lookupOrAddDefault.

However, might be able to add in afterwards.

• Was private, not public.

mentioned in commit f2e163a7dd5e37bf280de2b1ea8ed835f4728367

mentioned in commit 857a1b6c6af1ee05d9b0b448321424001f81c35f

@Mattijs - okay to consider these as 'closable'? Here is my assessment

• printExecutionFormat : was already supported
• writeOptionalEntries : now supported
• writeDictionaries - low-level, probably not useful
• disableFunctionEntries : low-level, internal to dictionary. Should not be directly exposed.

These ones are startup/security related and probably good not to expose much

• allowSystemOperations
• allowProfiling
• allowSpaceInFileName
• writeJobInfo

Finally, these ones would ideally also update existing objects (but don't)

• writePrecision

closed