On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > If we choose the latter, would "verbosity" really be the best choice? I > am not a native english speaker, but to me this sounds much broader than > "priority" or "level" do?
I suggested it for two reasons: * There's a long history of command-line -v switches to increase verbosity, often to the point where having enough (-vvvvvv) logs or outputs at the debug level. So, it's a familiar term in the Unix world. * It makes semantic sense with the integer values. The value of LOG_DEBUG is greater than LOG_WARNING, and the "verbosity" of an application displaying LOG_DEBUG (and more important) is higher than one displaying LOG_WARNING (and more important). The only thing I don't like about calling the argument "verbosity" is that, English-wise, the *program* is verbose, not the log messages themselves. But, I can't think of anything better. > Maybe call it "7-minus-priority" or so? ;-) It's certainly better than the normal antonyms of "priority," like "unimportance" or "irrelevance." -- David Strauss | da...@davidstrauss.net | +1 512 577 5827 [mobile] _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
