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diff --git a/doc/database b/doc/database index cac7a3a..da8f750 100644 --- a/doc/database +++ b/doc/database @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ LOGS severity (severity id) text (anything else you wanted to say) tag (identifier for operations) + access (integer) The log database contains a primary table (logs). As of this writing it is not indexed, because indexing is expensive during writes (common, for @@ -79,3 +80,11 @@ The log database "tag" field, added since the initial release of pseudo, is available for tagging operations. When a client connects to the pseudo server, it passes the value of the environment variable PSEUDO_TAG; this tag is then recorded for all log entries pertaining to that client. + +The log database "access" field, added since the initial release of pseudo, +stores values which are bitwise masks of the values 1 (execute), 2 (write), +4 (read), and 8 (append), used to report the modes with which a file was +opened. These values are not completely reliable. A value of 0 is typical +for non-open operations, and a value outside the 0-15 range (usually -1) +indicates that something went wrong trying to identify the mode of a given +open. |