[sugar] [OLPC Security] P_READ_LOGS

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
|> The easiest way to present logs, especially failure logs, is to make them
|> available through the standard Journal/Datastore interface.  For example,
|> we have some agreement that when an Activity fails to launch, the failure
|> should appear as such in the Journal time-view, connected to an object
|> representing the log file for that failure.  This log object has a "text"
|> type, and so can naturally be opened by any Activity that accepts this
|> type.  No additional permissions are required.  The user is responsible
|> for determining when to provide both sensitive data and P_NETWORK to the
|> same Activity.
|
| I find the Journal interface to be cumbersome.  I also do not
| believe the Journal ought to be cluttered up with "footprints"
| a kid would probably not be able to do anything about.   -1.

I agree that the current Journal would be a poor place for log files.
This proposal is in the context of
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs/Journal , the next-gen Journal UI, which
provides a much more effective system for organizing information.

- --Ben
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