EC_LOG_TYPE_REGISTER(3)

✨ EC_LOG_TYPE_REGISTER ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Libecoli Programmer's Manual 💖 you're literally about to learn how to register a log type and honestly? it's giving main character energy. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ec_log_type_register — register a named log type. that's it, that's the whole job. iconic. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ecoli/log.h>

int ec_log_type_register(
    struct ec_log_type   *type   /* The log type to register. */
);

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so basically, bestie: this registers a new log type, and that log type gets identified by its name. 🎀

the function hands you back a log identifier associated with the log name. and here's the cute part — if the name is already registered, it doesn't get mad, it doesn't duplicate anything, it just quietly returns the identifier you already have. lowkey so polite of it. 🫶

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🧚 STRUCTURES 🧚

a structure describing a log type, fr fr.

it is defined as a static structure</> by the EC_LOG_TYPE_REGISTER() macro. 👑

struct ec_log_type {
    enum   level;
    int    id;
};

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🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

• the log type identifier on success — and yes that's positive or zero, both count 💚
• -1 on error, and errno is set (so go check it, bestie, don't just sit there 😭)

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• ec_log_fct_register(3)
• ec_log_level_set(3)
• ec_vlog(3)
• ec_log_level_get(3)
• ec_log_name(3)
• ec_log(3)
• ec_log_default_cb(3)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry.

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and that's the whole page, periodt. 💅✨ this lil slice of the libecoli Programmer's Manual was served fresh on 2026-06-11 — go forth and register those log types, bestie, you ate. 🎀🦋💖