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Re: Logging: home-grown mechanism or syslog/event-log?

From: Brian Holmes <svndev_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-07-22 00:16:23 CEST

On 7/21/05, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:51 -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > > How does the receiving string know when one log message ends and
> > > another one begins?
> [I meant to write "receiving stream" there.]
>
> > I apologize for my ignorance. Why is this important?
>
> > A process wants to push a message (some number of bytes, usually
> > ending in \n) into a stream_t. Who cares where the message
> > 'dividers' are?
>
> If you're logging via syslog(), you want to call syslog() with a
> complete log message, and not include a newline. I assume Windows event
> logging is similar.
>
> (I really advise learning about syslog() if you're not already familiar
> with it.)
>

Yes, we can but that doesn't mean we have to. Just because there are
extra features to syslog() doesn't mean we have to fully use them. We
could also attach binary data to our log messsages in Windows but we
don't need to. We really just want to support the interface enough to
get our one line message out.

Why can't a "complete log message" be written without new lines in the middle?

- Brian Holmes

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