Re: Hurd logging. (was zalloc panic)

[Jon Arney]

Aparently I stand corrected.  Apologies and thanks for your
patience.

> 
> What do you mean by "its present state."  And if syslogd is lacking,
> would it not, perhaps, be better to try to extend it?

As I said, I am not opposed to using syslogd and think starting there
is a good idea.  If you believe it is feasible without causing
recursive RPC calls, I'll believe you.  My only concern was that
if, say, 'pfinet' needed to log something and syslog were configured
to write to UDP ports, pfinet would have to write to a UDP port
causing perhaps a recursive loop of log calls.  I realize that this
is ultimately a pathological case, but it's worth considering.

> > The second point is that many of the hurd translators do not use
> > syslog (perhaps out of concern for the issues I raise above).
> 
> If you look at the TODO list, you will see:
> 
>         * syslogify everything !
I missed that.  Apologies.  Anything I can do to help?  Do you take
volunteers, or have I proven myself unworthy by reason of ignorance.

Jonathan S. Arney
Software Engineer
jarney1@cox.net
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