libdaemon/dlog.h

#ifndef foodaemonloghfoo
#define foodaemonloghfoo

/***
  This file is part of libdaemon.

  Copyright 2003-2008 Lennart Poettering

  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
  in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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  copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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  OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
  SOFTWARE.

***/

#include <syslog.h>
#include <stdarg.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/** \file
 *
 * Contains a robust API for logging messages
 */

/** Specifies where to send the log messages to. The global variable daemon_log_use takes values of this type.
 */
enum daemon_log_flags {
    DAEMON_LOG_SYSLOG = 1,   /**< Log messages are written to syslog */
    DAEMON_LOG_STDERR = 2,   /**< Log messages are written to STDERR */
    DAEMON_LOG_STDOUT = 4,   /**< Log messages are written to STDOUT */
    DAEMON_LOG_AUTO = 8      /**< If this is set a daemon_fork() will
                                  change this to DAEMON_LOG_SYSLOG in
                                  the daemon process. */
};

/** This variable is used to specify the log target(s) to
 * use. Defaults to DAEMON_LOG_STDERR|DAEMON_LOG_AUTO */
extern enum daemon_log_flags daemon_log_use;

/** Specifies the syslog identification, use daemon_ident_from_argv0()
 * to set this to a sensible value or generate your own. */
extern const char* daemon_log_ident;

#if defined(__GNUC__) && ! defined(DAEMON_GCC_PRINTF_ATTR)
#define DAEMON_GCC_PRINTF_ATTR(a,b) __attribute__ ((format (printf, a, b)))
#else
/** A macro for making use of GCCs printf compilation warnings */
#define DAEMON_GCC_PRINTF_ATTR(a,b)
#endif

/** Log a message using printf format strings using the specified syslog priority
 * @param prio The syslog priority (PRIO_xxx constants)
 * @param t,... The text message to log
 */
void daemon_log(int prio, const char* t, ...) DAEMON_GCC_PRINTF_ATTR(2,3);

/** This variable is defined to 1 iff daemon_logv() is supported.
 * @since 0.11
 * @see daemon_logv()
 */
#define DAEMON_LOGV_AVAILABLE 1

/** Same as daemon_log(), but without variadic arguments
 * @since 0.11
 * @see DAEMON_LOGV_AVAILABLE
 */
void daemon_logv(int prio, const char* t, va_list ap);

/** Return a sensible syslog identification for daemon_log_ident
 * generated from argv[0]. This will return a pointer to the file name
 * of argv[0], i.e. strrchr(argv[0], '\')+1
 * @param argv0 argv[0] as passed to main()
 * @return The identification string
 */
char *daemon_ident_from_argv0(char *argv0);

/** This variable is defined to 1 iff daemon_set_verbosity() is available.
 * @since 0.14
 * @see daemon_set_verbosity()
 */
#define DAEMON_SET_VERBOSITY_AVAILABLE 1

/** Setter for the verbosity level of standard output.
 *
 * @param verbosity_prio Minimum priority level for messages to output
 * on standard output/error
 *
 * Allows to decide which messages to output on standard output/error
 * streams. All messages are logged to syslog and this setting does
 * not influence that.
 *
 * The default value is LOG_WARNING.
 *
 * @since 0.14
 * @see DAEMON_SET_VERBOSITY_AVAILABLE
 */
void daemon_set_verbosity(int verbosity_prio);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif