On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 04:06:42PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote: > This patch adds a tracing backend which sends output using syslog(). > The syslog backend is limited to POSIX compliant systems. > > openlog() is called with facility set to LOG_DAEMON, with the LOG_PID > option. Trace events are logged at level LOG_INFO. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com> > Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> > --- > configure | 19 ++++++++++++++++ > scripts/tracetool/backend/syslog.py | 45 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > trace/control.c | 7 ++++++ > 3 files changed, 71 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 scripts/tracetool/backend/syslog.py
Please add a section to docs/tracing.txt. It's worth mentioning the
caveats that Daniel Berrange pointed out in the documentation.
(I do believe that syslog tracing can be useful in some cases and it
will be merged.)
> +def generate_h_begin(events):
> + out('#include "trace/control.h"',
> + '#include <syslog.h>',
Please include system headers before user headers. This makes it clear
the user headers are not defining macros that will affect system
headers (which is sometimes necessary but should be done explicitly).
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