Re: [task #5490] syslog

2007-01-31 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I cannot see any reason why, once the system is up and running, even proc cannot simply syslog just like anything else, provided it does not hold internal locks as it does so (and this should be true for *every* call to syslog anyhow, in whatever program). I can see h

Re: [task #5490] syslog

2007-01-31 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
typo corrections... @!#$&*!! Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I cannot see any reason why, once the system is up and running, even proc cannot simply syslog just like anything else, provided it does not hold internal locks as it does so (and this should be true for *every* call to syslog anyhow, in wh

Re: [task #5490] syslog

2007-01-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 19:13 +0200, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: > typo corrections... @!#$&*!! > > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > I cannot see any reason why, once the system is up and running, even > > proc cannot simply syslog just like anything else, provided it does not > > hold internal locks

Re: [task #5490] syslog

2007-01-31 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: We generally tend to dislike the use of asynchronous messages. They are great for Mach, but we would like to avoid the need to use them in general. Keeping things always as RPCs makes the system much more likely to be portable in the future to other kernels. It's n

Re: [task #5490] syslog

2007-01-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 00:22 +0200, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: > > It's nice to know the direction the implementation is headed. I > would be grateful if you could supply links that further document > the above mentioned statement. To be honest, i had the exactly > opposite idea since it has b

Re: [task #5490] syslog

2007-01-31 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:41:05 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I see no reason why we should care about emulating klog. > > Hurd translators can, in general, perfectly well simply write directly > to the regular /dev/log socket in the regular way. Heck, even the > filesystem and pflocal transla