Re: klibc and logging

[H. Peter Anvin]

Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 09:58:02AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>Either we can add a "syslog" binary, or you can:
>>
>>echo '<3>The dohickey is fscked' > /dev/kmsg
> 
> Ok, that's fine for the echo-from-scripts problem.  Now what if I bring
> in something like stderr of gzip?  I suppose we need to modify all
> programs like gzip, etc to use syslog (maybe making perror() log to
> syslog)?
> 

We need to think carefully about it.  perror() and the likes are meant
to be taken in the context of having just executed a command, whereas a
syslog message needs to make sense on its own.  That's part of why I
think making it stderr default is a bad idea.

	-hpa