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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject: Re: review request for bin/11294
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On 24 Mar, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> writes:
>> But this implementation has drawbacks, that mine does not, IMHO:
>> 
>> 	. the configuration is system wide -- which is not neccessarily
>> 	  desirable;
>> [...]
> 
> This and all your other objections can be fixed using a global
> variable that overrides the symlink (or an API function that sets the
> target host).

My primary objection is that the problem you are solving -- logging to
some other host by default -- is different from mine -- logging to some
other host at the caller's discretion. Yes, the caller can call the new
API function you suggest (or set a global variable itself, which is
uglier, IMHO).

But the only drawback of my idea, that was pointed out so far is that
it _adds a new API call_. If such an addition _can_ be tolerated -- and
it looks from your response like it can -- I think, solving my problem
your way is inferior to my proposed solution. Which is not to say, the
solution you provided is inferior over all -- it is just for a different
problem.

	-mi



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