Re: [boost] [Logging] Support for syslog ?

From: Jens Seidel (jensseidel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-07 17:14:19

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:26:33PM +0200, John Torjo wrote:

John, please do not remove "Phil wrote" line.
> Hi Phil,

> >  From what I can see so far, using this library is not going to be a
> >compelling alternative to the concise
> >
> >#include <syslog.h>
> >syslog(LOG_WARN,"Blob %d failed to %s",n,x);
> >  
> Why not? If you say that writing to syslog is that easy, then adding a 
> formater class for syslog should be as easy as what I've just attached.
> It should work out of the box, but I haven't tested it. Please let me 
> know if it works.
> 
> I've looked here:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/syslog.html
> Does it handle Unicode (it doesn't seem to)?

To be honest I never considered using syslog for application programs.
I thought it is only used for system programs, services, ...

It is nevertheless very likely that the encoding is just ignored. Write
UTF-8 and you will be able to read your stuff in the log. If other
programs write KOI8-RU encoded text you will end with a log file with
different encoding. That's at least what I guess.

Jens