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Comment by delaminator

2 months ago

That's Linux C you're talking about. Many, many, many C codebases don't use syslog.

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BobbyTables2  2 months ago

Exactly!

At least Python has a standardized “logging” module where applications can control the format and destination.

But with the standard C library, there is little common ground. Solutions to the same basic problems are constantly reinvented - differently.

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