From 504ad2aeed8b60ebebbe0b2862427ff505a152eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Haller Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:03:23 +0200 Subject: logging/trivial: add code comment about logging-backend --- src/nm-logging.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/nm-logging.c b/src/nm-logging.c index 9ac79a45b4..2eab3e6014 100644 --- a/src/nm-logging.c +++ b/src/nm-logging.c @@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ static struct Global { const char *prefix; const char *syslog_identifier; enum { + /* before we setup syslog (during start), the backend defaults to GLIB, meaning: + * we use g_log() for all logging. At that point, the application is not yet supposed + * to do any logging and doing so indicates a bug. + * + * Afterwards, the backend is either SYSLOG or JOURNAL. From that point, also + * g_log() is redirected to this backend via a logging handler. */ LOG_BACKEND_GLIB, LOG_BACKEND_SYSLOG, LOG_BACKEND_JOURNAL, -- cgit v1.2.1