Re: klibc and logging

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:27:59 -0700


Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 09:58:02AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>Either we can add a "syslog" binary, or you can:
>>
>>echo '<3>The dohickey is fscked' > /dev/kmsg
>
> Ok, that's fine for the echo-from-scripts problem. Now what if I bring
> in something like stderr of gzip? I suppose we need to modify all
> programs like gzip, etc to use syslog (maybe making perror() log to
> syslog)?
>

We need to think carefully about it. perror() and the likes are meant
to be taken in the context of having just executed a command, whereas a
syslog message needs to make sense on its own. That's part of why I
think making it stderr default is a bad idea.

-hpa

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