At Tue, 26 May 2026 14:20:52 +0900, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote in
> While thinking about an approach that could allow to keep
> 0c8e082fba8d, I was wondering whether we should have a boolean flag
> that tracks if the log file is opened or not that gets set (we should
> not care about the reset) when we are done with its creation, but I'm
> feeling that this makes the logic feeble. We know only rely on
In write_syslogger_file, there's already a fallback path to
write_stderr() when fwrite fails. Would it make sense to treat logfile
== NULL as an error case as well?
> MyBackendType for the job which means to complicate all these checks.
> The part that makes me uneasy is that the logging facility should be
> robust by design, and simpler is always better IMO.
>
> An exception where we don't set MyBackendType and have an exception
> for this corresponding child_type value does not really feel right to
> me either.. As a whole, I am not sure to like what has been done
> here.
Agreed.
Regards.
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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
