Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-ga and logging domain

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:37:21PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote:
> Quoting David Gibson (2015-04-30 20:29:23)
> > Michael,
> > 
> > I was just looking at some of the logging stuff in qemu-ga, and it
> > seems to be doing something very odd with the "domain".
> > 
> > static void ga_log(const gchar *domain, GLogLevelFlags level,
> >                    const gchar *msg, gpointer opaque)
> > {
> >     GAState *s = opaque;
> >     GTimeVal time;
> >     const char *level_str = ga_log_level_str(level);
> > 
> >     if (!ga_logging_enabled(s)) {
> >         return;
> >     }
> > 
> >     level &= G_LOG_LEVEL_MASK;
> > #ifndef _WIN32
> >     if (domain && strcmp(domain, "syslog") == 0) {
> >         syslog(LOG_INFO, "%s: %s", level_str, msg);
> >     } else if (level & s->log_level) {
> > #else
> >     if (level & s->log_level) {
> > #endif
> >         g_get_current_time(&time);
> >         fprintf(s->log_file,
> >                 "%lu.%lu: %s: %s\n", time.tv_sec, time.tv_usec, level_str, msg);
> >         fflush(s->log_file);
> >     }
> > }
> > 
> > This is sending messages to syslog instead of a logfile if domain is
> > set to "syslog".  But the log domain is usually about where the
> > messages came from, not where they're going.
> > 
> > What's up with this?
> 
> Hmm, good question... IIRC I originally wanted a way to extend
> GLogLevelFlags to support a syslog log-level, but failing that
> I ended up re-purposing the unused domain field as a sort of
> hack instead.
> 
> As for why I felt the need to have slog() hook into this instead
> of calling syslog() directly... I think maybe I wanted to avoid
> having a global GAState *s in the qga/command* code for
> ga_logging_enable(s), but that could simply be done by having
> the slog() implementation live in qga/main.c. Then we can drop
> the need to re-purpose g_logv()'s 'domain' field.

That sounds like a better idea to me.

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