Re: [task #5490] syslog

[Neal H. Walfield]

The syslog facility could be implemented as follows:

The program which starts a translator opens /dev/klog on the
translator's behalf and inserts the file descriptor into the
translator's stdout and stderr.  This requires modifying settrans,
libdiskfs, etc. but not every translator individually.

Because syslog requires a few other parameters, syslog may also have
to be modified.  In this case, it could be Hurdified a bit.  It could
provide an RPC

   syslog_open (const char *ident, int priority)

the arguments of which correspond to openlog's and syslog's
parameters.  Messages would be read using the normal I/O interfaces
and the appropriate actions taken.  This allows automatically
redirecting the standard output of a translator to syslog with
priority LOG_INFO and standard error with priority LOG_ERR.

Neal