Introduction

• alog or a logger is a lightweight, portable logger written in C.
• It is entirely unremarkable
• Usage of alog is extremely simple.

What kind of things can I log to?

Anything that is a file descriptor and can be written to with write() and fsync(). This includes the following:

• pipes
• files
• stdout
• stderr
• sockets (untested)

How do I use this library?

• See the API
• See the tests

How to build

$ make alog-so

How to test

$ make alog-tests

Variables

The following (shell) variables can be set at compile time:

• ALOG_DEBUG: Set this variable to compile with debug symbols
• ALOG_HIJACK_PRINTF: Set this variable to compile along with a printf implementation that leverages alog. Probably dont though.