7.1. Rationale for a New Event-Handling System
We've found that the only code we've ever delivered on time and bug free was code that we did not write. That is, our most successful projects were the ones in which we were most able to avoid writing new code. New code always has bugs, and new code is always late. Why, then, did we decide to write a logging daemon to do event handling? There are really two parts to the answer: why we chose to use logging as the mechanism, and why we chose not to use an existing logging system.
Chapter 6 explains why we think logging is the right mechanism for event reporting. All events that are of interest to us are already captured by, or can easily be captured by, syslog messages. There are syslog libraries for ...
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