Additionally, using the log context makes sure the extra fields are applied to all log messages generated while the context is in place, rather than only log messages logged with log_unit_xxx() in timedated itself. It also means the unit name is prefixed to all log messages logged within that context. While it's not clear whether we always want the unit name to be attached to library log messages, we also don't want the unit name to not be attached to any library log messages, so we opt to add more rather than less information by adding the unit name everywhere for now. In the future we can look into some log.h helpers to enable/disable adding the prefix to the following log messages or not.
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