Re: Hurd logging. (was zalloc panic)

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Jon Arney <jarney1@cox.net> writes:

> It is not inherently better than syslogd.  It does, however,
> serve a slightly different class of process.  

We don't really want to have "different classes" of processes unless
there's a real need.

> The second point is that many of the hurd translators do not use
> syslog (perhaps out of concern for the issues I raise above).
> In fact, the only ones in the source base I could see were:
> 
> daemons/getty.c, 
> daemons/lmail.c,
> trans/pump.c
> ufs-utils/newfs.c

Right, that's why there's a task list item relating to it.