Re: introduction/adding facilities

[Darren Reed]

In some email I received from Chris Calabrese, sie wrote:
[...]
 > But, but, but... why should the facilities be integers in the first place?
 > They're just tags.  Names.  Strings.  Why do I need a mapping between strings
 > and integers to maintain?  Why can't I have something like:
 > 
 >      submit_log_entry("mail/MTA", LOG_ALERT, "the log message")
 > 
 > in my program and
 > 
 >      mail/MTA.*      "/var/adm/syslog/${facility_name}.log"

That looks like what I've heard people ask for.

Darren