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17/08/2020 17:11, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 11:37:40 +0100
> Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:20:28PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:09:11 +0300
> > > Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 11:45:49 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 21:39:29 +0300
> > > > > Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > > FreeBsd doesn't go through the same log code.
> > > >
> > > > Then --log-timestamp shouldn't appear on FreeBSD if it's unsupported.
> > >
> > > Was using same ifdef that is already there. There are several options
> > > already
> > > (like syslog facility) which do nothing on FreeBSD anyway.
> > >
> > While that is correct, I think that we really should support this on
> > FreeBSD also, since I don't think there is any technical reason we can't do
> > so, right? Even a sub-optimal solution where the timestamp write and log
> > write are non-atomic would be better than nothing.
> >
> > /Bruce
>
> FreeBSD now just uses default log stream (stdout).
> Linux has log stream to syslog and stdout.
>
> There is nothing Linux specific in the old or new code.
> The Linux code could just be moved to common, and both could use it.
> That is a separate patch, and someone with expertise and build setup for
> FreeBSD needs to do it.
>
