On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > The standard version would simply have to use a technique like I > > described, you wouldn't want to be replacing programs basked on what front > > end is being used, that is messy. > > Oh, you mean make dpkg-log write to a fifo or something?
Yes, a unix domain socket, or pre-opened file FD, some mechanism passed in through an environment variable. We can set a reasonable format so we can tag messages w/ priority. The absense of such a variable would just echo to stdout. Randolph was working on a similar scheme for debconf at one point, IIRC he was going to use a unix socket (which is good for debconf) Jason
