The goal of this project is to create the backend library and corresponding daemon for a simple syslog-like interface.
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There should be a shared library for implementing the interface, and a daemon which handles the logging.
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The C API of this library should exactly match the normal syslog found on Linux systems.
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The syslog should support multiple simultaneous writers without interleaving.
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The daemon that handles syslog requests should default to logging to "/tmp/alt-syslog.log", which can be overridden with a
-f /path/to/loglocation. Insufficient access to create this log should be detected, and the daemon should fail to start if this isn't available.