logging level conventions

Tom Joseph tomjose at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jan 17 01:49:29 AEDT 2019



On Monday 14 January 2019 09:49 PM, Vernon Mauery wrote:
> When making a change in netipmid, the conversation came up about user 
> errors versus system errors. There are times that both should be 
> logged, but obviously system errors are more severe. So in that 
> project, I made system errors (like failure to communicate on dbus, 
> etc.,) as log<ERR>() and user errors (like bad credentials) as 
> log<INFO>().
>
> Does anyone else think that the project as a whole should make this 
> distinction between system errors and user errors? Maybe add something 
> to the coding style?
Agree, if there are no objections to this we should add it to the coding 
guidelines so that the new developers benefit.
>
> --Vernon
>



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