Re: [task #5490] syslog

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 06:09:58PM +0200, Constantine Kousoulos wrote:

> Can you please elaborate which servers you characterise as
> "low-level"?

Well, all the core servers operating below the POSIX level: task, exec,
proc, auth, passwd, pipe... I'm not quite sure about pfinet and ext2 --
these implement some specific POSIX interfaces as well, but I think they
rely on the main POSIX mechanisms being in place, so I guess they don't
need special handling here.

(ext2 logging to a syslog file on the ext2 partition, or pfinet logging
to syslog over network, might make for interesting effects though... I
guess this problem also requires some consideration.)

> Since all Hurd servers lie in user space, it seems contradictory to
> use the term low-level.

I don't see why. Just because they run in user space, doesn't mean they
are automatically high-level.

-antrik-