Re: libsvn_repos logging -- design problems

On Jul 15, 2005, at 10:53 AM, John Peacock wrote:
>
> I think the public API is too low level to begin with. Each
> process should be calling a logger, which is the only code that
> handles writing and the only code which knows to where the log is
> being written.

What is a 'logger'? A whole new svn-logging-daemon process?

I see only two options: write a whole new logging daemon, or use
some sort of file-locking to mediate access.

> It would also solve the apr_psprintf performance issues if there
> was an opaque logger object that contained the loglevel, so that
> all code could do something like this [horrible pseudocode]:
>
> if this_event_level < logger.loglevel
> logger.log_error(moderately expensive apr_psprintf)

Yes, that's basically what Branko was suggesting.

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Received on Fri Jul 15 18:05:24 2005