[Toybox] new toy: logger

[Rob Landley]

On 03/22/2013 10:11:52 AM, Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote:
> Around 03/22/2013 04:47 PM, Ilya Kuzmich scribbled:
> > Implements -t -p ans -s. Same functionality as busybox logger sans
> > numeric facility. Do we really need this?
> >
> > There is one sublte corner case though:
> > logger "", logger "" "", or even logger </dev/null
> > gnu silently ignores all of them
> > busybox logs logger "" and logger "" "", but ignores logger  
> </dev/null
> > this toy logs them all
> 
> I think toybox already have that.
> 
> http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2012-April/000422.html

Ok, re-triaging this. (Sorry if I'm a bit woozy right now, been sick  
all week.)

The strings and mdev stuff are moot, mke2fs needs a restart. (I should  
also move toysh.c and login.c into pending, they need work.)

Your logger is cleaner, but I mentioned the issues with both last  
message.

What were the license terms on the test.c you derived yours from? It  
looks like a lot of people touched it over the years.

The two portability ones... Hmmm, I'm torn. I gave a talk at CELF last  
week about my plans going forward:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0
   http://landley.net/talks/celf-2013.txt

And it boils down to "I want to support android via musl, not sure how  
much I care about OSX at all at this point". I have a test environment  
for glibc, uClibc, and musl. I can get a test environment for bionic  
(and should prioritize that).

I can't get a mac test environment easily because it's proprietary.  
Even if I went into a store and bought a copy (which I haven't),  
running it under qemu is fiddly due to hardware anti-circumvention crap:

   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-02/msg00444.html

(It's basically the way everybody knows decss, everybody knows the blue  
ray key leaked, but there's still enough looming legal threat to  
prevent upstream packages from cleanly integrating this knowledge.)

Rob
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