Prototype with some usage examples here: https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/pull/3149
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020, at 10:06 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote: > On our weekly call this morning, we were talking about moving toward > standardizing the format of Cyrus logs. My interest here is in making it > easy for a program to read and classify logs. That's not as simple as it > could be, right now, because often a log line is sprintf-'d with parameters. > Even worse, sometimes those parameters have spaces in them. > > I think we all agree on something like this: > * produce a macro that does the logging in a standard format > * the format leads with a "category", which is a fixed string > * extra data to be included show up like auditlog does it: foo=<x> bar=<y> > * by using a macro, we can get the location (file, function) from which the > log line is being emitted > > Next steps: > * agree on the specifics of the above and that it's the way to log in new > code > * start converting old code (prioritized by value of reading lines from each > part of the code) > > Further thoughts before we get on to specifics? > > -- > Ricardo Signes (rjbs)
