Index: trunk/psLib/src/sysUtils/psTrace.c
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--- trunk/psLib/src/sysUtils/psTrace.c	(revision 2273)
+++ trunk/psLib/src/sysUtils/psTrace.c	(revision 2426)
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@
  *  @author George Gusciora, MHPCC
  *
- *  @version $Revision: 1.38 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
- *  @date $Date: 2004-11-04 01:05:00 $
+ *  @version $Revision: 1.39 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
+ *  @date $Date: 2004-11-24 20:12:28 $
  *
  *  Copyright 2004 Maui High Performance Computing Center, University of Hawaii
@@ -385,4 +385,15 @@
         traceLevel = doGetTraceLevel(name);
     }
+
+    // XXX: The default trace level is currently set at -1, which is not a
+    // valid trace level.  This is convenient in determining whether or not
+    // a component should inherit the trace level from parent nodes.  However,
+    // it's not clear that -1 should ever be returned by this function.
+    // The SDR is unclear on this point and we should probably request IfA
+    // comment.
+    if (traceLevel == PS_DEFAULT_TRACE_LEVEL) {
+        traceLevel = PS_THE_OTHER_DEFAULT_TRACE_LEVEL;
+    }
+
     return(traceLevel);
 }
@@ -454,5 +465,5 @@
     }
 
-    doPrintTraceLevels(cRoot, 0, PS_DEFAULT_TRACE_LEVEL);
+    doPrintTraceLevels(cRoot, 0, PS_THE_OTHER_DEFAULT_TRACE_LEVEL);
 }