Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:41:57 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Generic hardware error reporting support |
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On 10-11-22 07:29 PM, Huang Ying wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 07:43 +0800, Mark Lord wrote: >> On 10-11-20 08:06 PM, huang ying wrote: >>> >>> I have no objection to report hardware errors in system logs too. So >>> these people can get the information too. I just want to add another >>> tool oriented interface too. So that some other users (like cluster >>> administrator) can get their work done better too. >> >> So, use the standard interface for the tool: syslog. > > Although it may be possible to extract some information from syslog and > parse it in a fault tolerant way, we can only use that human oriented > interface for a tool? That sounds like hack.
No, that sounds like the *NIX programming philosophy.
You may have already noticed that most *NIX tools store and manage data in _text_ form. That makes it easy to understand, easy to parse/process, and generally better in almost every respect.
Other platforms (GNOME, MS-Windows) prefer a binary format that requires special tools to view/access. Ugh.
Cheers
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