[TUHS] FD 2

[Larry McVoy]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 09:56:16AM +1100, Rob Pike wrote:
> I will let others respond with specifics, but that was there in v5 at least.
> 
> One of the many shocks I had on arrival at Google was that in production,
> fd2 was pretty much standard output, as all the logging went there. And
> since our machines were still 32-bit CPUs then, it was common to overflow
> the offset because the logging output was, well, not parsimonious. It felt
> like I'd entered bizarro world, until I realized that few anywhere really
> knew how Unix was supposed to be used. And they still don't, and never will.

Isn't there a logging API complete with the ability to centralize the logs?