[Mono-devel-list] EventLog and syslog

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:32 +0400, Vorobiev Maksim wrote:
> Good day.
>  
> To the discussion of Syscall.syslog. Why System.Diagnostic.EventLog
> was not implemented for Unixes on top of syslog?

Because I never got that far, and nobody else felt it was important
enough to provide a patch. :-)

Plus, I'm picky about design.

In particular, the current #ifdef-laden code in EventLogImpl.cs is a bad
idea.  EventLog should instead follow the design of
System.IO.FileSystemWatcher, where an interface between
FileSystemWatcher and multiple different implementations is provided and
chosen at run-time.

In particular, the selection between a Win32 event log, Syslog-based
event log, and a file-based event log should happen at runtime (based
either on an environment variable or by looking at
Path.DirectorySeparatorChar to select between win32 & syslog).  The
Win32 version can wait, but the interface & runtime-based design should
be implemented to permit using a Win32 version later.

If you can do that, I'd be more than happy to look at a patch.
Otherwise, it'll wait until I get around to it, and Mono.Unix is getting
more attention from me...

 - Jon