Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd_at_gmail.com> wrote in <CAJ-Vmoncp+qT97ipfn02S+Ax+Nkze8kX3E2=9Hf7dykZzz2X0w_at_mail.gmail.com>: ad> On 19 December 2016 at 16:04, Jordan Hubbard <jkh_at_mail.turbofuzz.com> wrote: ad> > ad> > On Dec 19, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd_at_gmail.com> wrote: ad> > ad> > So although I like the sentiment, I don't think using dtrace for ad> > program logging is the right answer. I like what apple did to wrap ad> > the program logging stuff so people didn't just write their own ad> > libraries (hi!) and so there's a unified-ish way to interact with ad> > apple programs. I think we could do with that. ad> > ad> > ad> > Thanks! ad> > ad> > We did a number of other things with ASL (Apple System Logger) which I miss ad> > very much today and would hope to see in any FreeBSD equivalent: ad> > ad> > 1. We structured all log data into dictionaries, so every application and/or ad> > subsystem within that application can add its own “tags” without squashing ad> > other key information. This also unified the character encoding format, so ad> > some applications were no longer logging in ISO-Latin1, others in UTF-8 and ad> > yet others in SHIFT-JIS. ad> > ad> > 2. There’s also a logging database, as one of the many possible “output ad> > sinks”, so searches / queries are fast (and there’s an API for querying and ad> > managing its contents). ad> > ad> > 3. We added client-side and server side logging filters, so you can “crank ad> > an application up” or shut its mouth without having to make any code ad> > changes. ad> > ad> > 4. It’s all thread-safe. ad> ad> Hm. Where's the ASL source hiding? I'm kinda hoping it's light weight ad> enough to port over without porting a lot of other stuff, but I am ad> also afraid it's Apple.. :) libsystem_asl at https://opensource.apple.com/source/syslog/syslog-349.1.1/? -- Hiroki
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