[systemd-devel] sd_journal_add_match if not using the form of "FIELD=value"

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:53 AM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
wrote:

> On Fri, 06.03.15 21:28, Chris Morgan (chmorgan at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> >
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_journal_add_match.html
> > is pretty clear that the matches are in the form of 'FIELD=value' but
> > it doesn't mention the why.
> >
> > What if I've written a field like "FIELD", can I then match on it as
> > "FIELD"?
>
> Hmm, not sure I understand what you mean?
>
> The journal stores key/value pairs, on display and when parsing we
> denote them in the form of an uppercase fied name, followed by a "=",
> followed by any kind of data.
>
> Hence, just "FIELD" is not something the journald would or could
> store. If you try to pass this to journald for it to write, it would
> drop this, because it's malformed and not a key/value pair.


I think the idea was just to *match* all entries that have a given key
*present* but with any value?

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
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