On 07/28/17 03:35, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 27.07.2017, 10:48 -0600 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 04:12:29PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, den 26.07.2017, 13:59 -0600 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
>>>> This changes how logging is setup to send log messages only to
>>>> syslog,
>>>> instead of to stderr and to syslog. If messages are sent to both
>>>> places then systemd will create duplicate log entries.
>>>
>>> The parameter name --systemd is not a good choice. It doesn't tell
>>> me what will change ("Enable systemd integration" does not help
>>> here) and someone might to want to use the switch without
>>> systemd. So something like --no-log-to-stderr or --syslog-only
>>> would
>>> better describe the behavior.
>>
>> There are more systemd integration features to come, eg sd_notify,
>> some journal integration is possible.
>>
>> I don't want to keep adding options along these lines, universally
>> having --systemd to turn everything we want to do on makes sense.
>
> A more flexible approach: Add individual parameters and let the
> --systemd parameter just be an alias for these. So the man page would
> say: "--systemd is equivalent to --foo --bar --baz"
Hello Benjamin,
How about postponing the conversion of --systemd into multiple
individual command line options until that option represents multiple
settings instead of the one setting it represents today?
Bart.
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