PulseAudio Now Supports The Systemd Journal

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PulseAudio Now Supports The Systemd Journal

Lennart Poettering's former project of focus, PulseAudio, now supports the journal of his increasingly-used systemd system management daemon...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTU0ODY

[curaga]

PulseAudio hasn't put a hard requirement on systemd but can be used in parallel with traditional syslog daemons.

Woah? Be still my beating heart, has he finally changed?

commit is not by Lennart

Oh.

[RahulSundaram]

Woah? Be still my beating heart, has he finally changed?

FWIW, systemd allows you to keep the journal as non persistent (ie) nothing will be saved to disk and you can run a traditional syslog daemon in parallel. So not that different from PulseAudio here.

[Ericg]

FWIW, systemd allows you to keep the journal as non persistent (ie) nothing will be saved to disk and you can run a traditional syslog daemon in parallel. So not that different from PulseAudio here.

Last I recall, you're right. As far as I know, journal checks for the existence of /var/log/journal and if it exists saves there (to disk), if it doesn't it gets dumped to /tmp/log/journal (which is usually a RAMDisk)

[RahulSundaram]

Last I recall, you're right. As far as I know, journal checks for the existence of /var/log/journal and if it exists saves there (to disk), if it doesn't it gets dumped to /tmp/log/journal (which is usually a RAMDisk)

Not tmp. /run/journal. In Fedora, both /run and /tmp using tmpfs but on other systems only /run uses tmpfs.

[89c51]

Woah? Be still my beating heart, has he finally changed?

Have you tried systemd in any of your systems??

[dh04000]

[joke]

Lennart" Yes YES! Absorb the audio frame work! Absorb all the linux components! Systemd doesn't run on linux, linux runs on systemd! Mwhahahahha!"

[/joke]

PS: don't take this seriously.

[Ericg]

Not tmp. /run/journal. In Fedora, both /run and /tmp using tmpfs but on other systems only /run uses tmpfs.

Whoops! Thanks for the catch Rahul, sometimes I forget about things moving to /run haha

[zoomblab]

Although the code is quite minimal, I don't like inter mixed implementations through ifdefs. The proper way would be to have separate implementations of an abstract interface. Just sayin..

[RahulSundaram]

Although the code is quite minimal, I don't like inter mixed implementations through ifdefs. The proper way would be to have separate implementations of an abstract interface. Just sayin..

Either is fine depending on whether the implementations have a comparable feature set. Abstractions are not always the right answer. Especially in this case, I would say it would be an overkill.