[systemd-devel] Shedding some legacy naming: syslog "priority"

David Strauss david at davidstrauss.net
Tue Feb 12 21:28:05 PST 2013


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> I kinda prefer "level" here, since that's it's more precise I think than
> verbosity. It does not imply what is high and what is low though, but
> that's already definitely better than with "priority" where things tend
> to be inversed of that english language might suggest...

I definitely prefer "level" or "log level" to "priority," if only to
solve the "higher numbers are lower priority" confusion.

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