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mjrat_private

Darren Reed wrote:
>The biggest problem any change is going to have is dealing with
>convincing programmers that the extra effort is worthwhile.

Yeah. :( But unless we can, we're stuck with syslog forever.

Now that I think about it, I think a requirement must be that it
>provides a syslog(3) interface for old applications.

You're probably right. Of course if one provided
such an interface there'd be no motivation to ever
change it, and we'd be (basically) stuck with syslog
forever.

mjr. 
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