[ovs-dev] [PATCH] syslog: Provide stub functions for openlog and syslog.

[Gurucharan Shetty]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:02:09AM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 02:40:34PM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
>> >> One option to implement openlog and syslog functionality in windows
>> >> is to use windows event logger. But it looks like it involves changing
>> >> registry settings and in general looks complicated.
>> >>
>> >> For the time being, do nothing for syslog. All the information needed for
>> >> debugging will be present through the 'file' option anyways.
>> >>
>> >> We can start OVS daemons on windows with "-vfile:info -vsyslog:off".
>> >
>> > This series seems reasonable to me.  Should we also update lib/vlog.man,
>> > lib/vlog-unixctl.man, and utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in to describe the
>> > behavior of syslog on Windows?.
>>
>> I was dilly-dallying on this a bit as we do not have a ovs-appctl
>> implementation yet. But, I think it makes sense to add the
>> documentation now.
>
> OK.
>
> Should we put some kind of status in BUILD.Windows?
We cannot yet compile any of the executables upstream cleanly with the
changes made so far. So a status update just for ovs-appctl in
BUILD.Windows feels a little odd.
If you have any suggestions on how to tackle this, I will incorporate.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.