This allows the caller to explicitly specify which journal files
should be opened. The same functionality could be achieved before
by creating a directory and playing around with symlinks. It
is useful to debug stuff and explore the journal, and has been
requested before.
Waiting is supported, the journal will notice modifications on
the files supplied when opening the journal, but will not add
any new files.
This is the just the library part.
SD_JOURNAL_CURRENT_USER flags is added to sd_j_open(), to open
files from current user.
SD_JOURNAL_SYSTEM_ONLY is renamed to SD_JOURNAL_SYSTEM,
and changed to mean to (also) open system files. This way various
flags can be combined, which gives them nicer semantics, especially
if other ones are added later.
Backwards compatibility is kept, because SD_JOURNAL_SYSTEM_ONLY
is equivalent to SD_JOURNAL_SYSTEM if used alone, and before there
we no other flags.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55890
Fixed typos, serial comma, and removed "either" as there were more
than two options. Also did an extra rename of "system-shutdown"
to "systemd-shutdown" that was forgotten in commit
8bd3b8620c
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Philip Nilsson
Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen
Ville Skyttä
Lennart Poettering