Re: "witty subject line about logging feature"

On Wednesday 27 July 2005 21:12, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:43 +0200, Marc Haisenko wrote:
> > ... if available. But implementing "log to file" should be quite trivial
> > in cases where syslog/Windows event log is not available.
>
> It's less trivial than you think, because you need to take into account
> log-rolling. This requires your process to accept a signal which causes
> you to close and re-open the log file. If logging has been abstracted
> into a library, then that either forces the library to futz with the
> process's global signal state, or increases the API complexity of the
> library.
>
> I'm not saying it's rocket science, just that it's not ten lines of
> trivial code.

Let me rephrase it: "compared with other stuff SubVersion is implementing, log
to file would be quite trivial" ;-)

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Marc Haisenko
Systemspezialist
Webport IT-Services GmbH
mailto: haisenko@webport.de
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