MLton 20180207

# MLtonSyslog

    signature MLTON_SYSLOG =
       sig
          type openflag

          val CONS     : openflag
          val NDELAY   : openflag
          val NOWAIT   : openflag
          val ODELAY   : openflag
          val PERROR   : openflag
          val PID      : openflag

          type facility

          val AUTHPRIV : facility
          val CRON     : facility
          val DAEMON   : facility
          val KERN     : facility
          val LOCAL0   : facility
          val LOCAL1   : facility
          val LOCAL2   : facility
          val LOCAL3   : facility
          val LOCAL4   : facility
          val LOCAL5   : facility
          val LOCAL6   : facility
          val LOCAL7   : facility
          val LPR      : facility
          val MAIL     : facility
          val NEWS     : facility
          val SYSLOG   : facility
          val USER     : facility
          val UUCP     : facility

          type loglevel

          val EMERG    : loglevel
          val ALERT    : loglevel
          val CRIT     : loglevel
          val ERR      : loglevel
          val WARNING  : loglevel
          val NOTICE   : loglevel
          val INFO     : loglevel
          val DEBUG    : loglevel

          val closelog: unit -> unit
          val log: loglevel * string -> unit
          val openlog: string * openflag list * facility -> unit
       end

MLton.Syslog is a complete interface to the system logging facilities. See man 3 syslog for more details.

- closelog ()

  closes the connection to the system logger.

- log (l, s)

  logs message s at a loglevel l.

- openlog (name, flags, facility)

  opens a connection to the system logger. name will be prefixed to each message, and is typically set to the program name.