[syslog-ng] Re: syslog-ng: new destination driver

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> syslog-ng uses make_class as a preprocessor to create data structures for
> object classes, and to generate code needed by the mark & sweep garbage
> collector. To create a new destination driver, you would create a class from
> (or directly use) log_dest_driver defined in destinations.h. If you look at
> affile.c (as one of the simplest destination driver), it derives a class:

Great, thanks for the explanation.  Complex to get started with, but I
can see how it simplifies things once its all there.

I'll start working on afprog in the next day or so.

	J