liblogging-stdlog – code reviewers sought

I am looking for some code reviewers.

I have worked hard on liblogging-stdlog, which aims at becoming the new enhanced syslog() API call. The library is thread- and signal-safe and offers support for multiple log drivers, just like log4j does.

More elaborate description is here: https://github.com/rsyslog/liblogging

 

As the lib is becoming ready for prime time, I would really appreciate if some folks could have a look at the code and check for problems and/or offer suggestions in regard to the API.

It is only the code inside ./stdlog (roughly 1400 lines of code, including header files, empty lines and comments): https://github.com/rsyslog/liblogging/tree/master/stdlog

The man page is available here: https://github.com/rsyslog/liblogging/blob/master/stdlog/stdlog.rst

All feedback is very welcome!

Thanks,

Rainer

the rsyslog v8 engine – what’s new?

I have written a small presentation on what has changed in the rsyslog v8 engine. It takes a developer’s perspective, but is most probably also of interest for administrators who would like to understand why the v8 engine scales out much better for slow outputs like ElasticSearch or databases.

For developers, it also contains the basic know-how needed to successfully (and without pain!) upgrade a pre-v8 output plugin to v8.