SETLOGMASK(3P)

💖 SETLOGMASK(3P) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this page lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual (yes, the 3P is giving "POSIX section 3, functions"), and it's here to tell you about setlogmask — literally just setting the log priority mask. short page, but we're gonna make it cute anyway. 🎀

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

real talk first, bestie: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.

⚠️ the Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior), or honestly the interface may not even be implemented on Linux at all. no cap. 😭

✨ NAME ✨

setlogmask — set the log priority mask 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <syslog.h>

int setlogmask(int maskpri);

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

bestie, this one's a redirect, not a whole essay: refer to closelog(). that's it. that's the description. iconic minimalism fr fr. ✨

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

🚨 in the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. (translation: the original is the main character, this page is the side character. periodt.)

the original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. to report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html . 🐛✨

and that's the whole vibe, bestie 💖 this came to you from IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, and yeah the page is SETLOGMASK(3P). mwah, go set that mask. 🫶🌸