Hi, On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:30:32PM +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> The syslog facility could be implemented as follows: > > The program which starts a translator opens /dev/klog on the > translator's behalf and inserts the file descriptor into the > translator's stdout and stderr. [...] An interesting idea, though it doesn't really help with the problem at hand: This thread (and I think the task it refers to) isn't about logging from normal translators (which wouldn't need any special facility to use syslog() in the canonical way), but from the low-level Hurd servers. For logging from normal translators, this approach is certainly worth considering. Note however that the same would work with traditional UNIX daemons -- and yet, it hasn't been done this way; syslog() instead has been introduced as a completely different facility. Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean that the idea is bad and the syslog() approach must be better. But at least one needs to wonder, why it has been done differently... Any ideas? -antrik- _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
