On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Robert G. Jakabosky
<[email protected]> wrote:

> What about allowing the log messages to be multi-part, with the identity (or
> other optional log info) sent unformatted as the second part.  This could also
> decrease the overhead of sending log messages.
>
> Also if the first part of the log message was just the error identifier, then
> a log formatting function could be provided to format the log message for
> printing.

Indeed... we will need a standard log message format, and this can go
quite far. I'll godwin the thread by suggesting we use XML :-)

> This logging feature could be used for detecting connect/disconnect events,
> something that I and a few other people I talked to have wanted.
>
> Another way to get event notices from a socket would be to add a socket option
> to set an address that events should be published to.
>
> connect/disconnect events could be used by publishers to know when they should
> start/stop sending data or by load-balancers devices to detect the failure of
> backend workers.

Connection is not really the same as presence, which makes this tricky.

-Pieter
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