From: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
To: eliz@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] syslog interface
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 14:02:33 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100528.140233.426426550911485005.yamato@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zkzlme0c.fsf@gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:18:47 +0900 (JST)
>> From: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
>>
>> My idea is using syslog implemention in libc;
>> it handles the protocol, and we can expect it is maintained well. If
>> the protocol is changed the libc maintainer will update the function.
>> As the result we can use/maintain syslog interfae from elisp without
>> worrying about the protocol changing.
>>
>> Here is sample implemention. It comes from two parts: syslog.el and a patch
>> for emacs.
>
> IMHO, this syslog.el is too specific to the single platform on which
> it was coded. It should be more portable: not to expose highly
> system-dependent constants, for example. All this unportable stuff
> should be inside the primitive, because the primitive will have to be
> implemented for every platform that has its own syslog facility and
> API.
>
> See proced.el for an example of another similar facility, and the
> primitives it uses.
>
Thank you for advice. I'll look at proced.el.
Masatake YAMATO
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-28 5:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-27 5:18 [RFC] syslog interface Masatake YAMATO
2010-05-27 16:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-28 5:01 ` Masatake YAMATO
2010-05-27 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-28 5:02 ` Masatake YAMATO [this message]
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