[Development] Cake and eating it too for qDebug printing to system log - https://codereview.qt-project.org/89357

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 11 July 2014 07:45:23 Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> It might be even worse if systemd-shim provides that directory. Is it worth
> to  try sd_journal_open() and see if it fails? Or check some other way if
> systemd actually launched the application?

No and no. 

sd_journal_open might fail because the application can't open the log file, but 
logging to the journal is the intention. We're asking that distros not enable 
logging there if the user can't open the journal, but some embedded devices 
may want exactly that. So this option is out.

Checking if the application was launched by systemd is also not an option IMHO 
because it would mean subprocesses wouldn't use journald, but instead go to 
stderr, which in turn makes that output be attributed to the parent process.

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