Very occasionally we backport patches to RHEL's httpd package in a way that introduces new or different logging output from 2.4/trunk. I'm wondering if there is any opinion about vendors asking for for a small (say, 100?) reserved range of APLOGNO() space to use for such cases? Basically I'd just commit "next-number += 100" and use that range within downstream patches since they are then reserved upstream.
1) No, we should discourage vendors from such divergence. 2) Yes, they are just numbers, I don't care. 3) Yes, but commit to maintaining a public URL with documentation for each log message used or something similar. Thoughts? Regards, Joe
