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- Submitted-by: flee@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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- >On the contrary. syslog is a counterexample. While it is hardly as
- >modular as I would like, it shows that (0) an fd-centric model works;
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- syslog shows the limitations of an fd-centric model. B News, for
- example, writes log entries in the files "log" and "errlog". You
- cannot redirect this into syslog without modifying code.
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- If syslog existed in the filesystem namespace, you might
- ln -s /syslog/news.info log
- ln -s /syslog/news.err errlog
- or maybe even
- ln -s ~/mylog/news.err errlog
- and everything would work.
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- Why should I have to teach all my programs about syslog when I can
- just write to a filesystem object instead?
- --
- Felix Lee flee@cs.psu.edu
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 204
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