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elnode should allow logging to processes and files
Elnode needs to be able to send errors and accesses to files and to processes instead of just buffers.
Elnode's current log handling is just buffers through elnode-log-access
function and the elnode-error
macro.
There tends to be 1 error log overall (accessed through the function elnode--get-error-log-buffer
) and 1 access log per dispatcher instance (which is per application, normally) through elnode-hostpath-dispatcher
.
Both deal with buffers only.
Processes
One should be able to specify a program name that could be invoked to handle log messages. Ideally it would be possible to maintain a connection to that program for a long period of time, to log many messages through it. If it fails it should automatically restart.
Files
There should be files backing up the log buffers. The implementation of these could be efficient through append-to-file
and comint-truncate-buffer
(which might need to be copied).
How to specify the file names is the biggest problem.
The files stuff is done. elnode-log-access
and elnode-error
both now go through a general buffer logging function that constantly writes the buffer.