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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: kerolasa@gmail.com
Cc: Priya Ahuja <priahuja321@gmail.com>,
	util-linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Custom structured data from logger utility
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:17:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150924111702.GD1787@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG27Bk1+WHUEpyn53pGeSyE0bCVgRFnZ0sD17M3MS0p11P8-Pw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 09:50:35AM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote:
> I guess custom data could be implemented the same way as it's done with
> journal, e.g., with io vectors.

Well, for --journal we read the data from stdin. I'm not sure if this
is the right way for rfc5424 where we already use stdin to read the
message body. Maybe we can add extra option 

    --structured-data name=value

where you can specify the option more than once.

> Perhaps someone else could take the lead doing in writing these changes,
> would you for example fancy doing that?

I'll try it... ;-)

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-24 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-18 23:25 Custom structured data from logger utility Priya Ahuja
2015-09-19  8:50 ` Sami Kerola
2015-09-24 11:17   ` Karel Zak [this message]
2015-10-01 12:58 ` Karel Zak
2015-10-02 18:43   ` Priya Ahuja
2015-10-05 12:59     ` Karel Zak

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