interoperation with syslog, only on systemd's terms

Rainer is asking for information on how to interoperate with the journal and the answers (or lack of them) is interesting, especially the way that the journal refuses to provide information that it has to syslog (and in the process, prevents syslog from gathering the information on it's own)

they say that there would be no reason to create the new mechanism if syslog supports structured data, but they seem to then ignore information saying how to do so through established standards.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-...