From e540ab40c0efe6360e9a6e3d9f34b0e1b420fdde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:21:08 -0800
Subject: codex: initial commit

!!! This code is a very quick hack I made in an evening of
!!! inspired curiosity, the code should be considered of junk
!!! quality.

Codex aspires to be a read-only FUSE interface to the journal
provided by systemd.

At this point it only implements simple reading of the journal
through a single match filter selected via filesystem path.

With codex mounting the journal @ /mnt, you can see what
fields are available for matching against via:

`ls /mnt/by-field`

This returns a list of fields as directories, which you can then
list the contents of to see all the unique values present for the
repsective field, returned as regular files:

`ls /mnt/by-field/UNIT`

Then by reading one of the returned files, you read the contents
of the journal filtered on the respective field and value, e.g.:

`cat /mnt/by-field/UNIT/apt-daily.timer`

and you'll get a stream of all the data in the journal with a
filter of UNIT=apt-daily.timer

With some work, this could be made more advanced supporting
combined filters, perhaps in the form of:

`cat /mnt/by-field/UNIT/apt-daily.timer/and/by-field/PRIORITY/3/all`

As-is, the path by-field/UNIT/apt-daily.timer is a regular file,
so no such constructions are possible.  But if it were changed to
be another directory, where you can select further matches by
traversing yet another and/by-field subpath, where all the fields
are available (or maybe only the matching subset of fields if
feasible), then more complex uses could be satisfied.  Imagine
or/by-field and and/by-field being available under every value's
directory.

Note this commit includes a barely functioning PoC.  It is not
intended for production, but you can already use it to navigate
journals in a way I find more pleasant than journalctl.

I think it'd be great to have a tool like this built out with all
the bells and whistles.  It may make sense to roll something
similar into journalctl like `journalctl --mount /mnt/point`.
---
 configure.ac | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 configure.ac

(limited to 'configure.ac')

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cda2be8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+AC_INIT([codex], [1.0], [vcaputo@pengaru.com])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign])
+AC_PROG_CC
+AM_PROG_CC_C_O
+AM_PROG_AR
+AC_PROG_RANLIB
+AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])
+
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall"
+
+dnl Check for fuse
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(FUSE, fuse)
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $FUSE_CFLAGS"
+LIBS="$LIBS $FUSE_LIBS"
+
+dnl Check for libsystemd
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SD, libsystemd)
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $SD_CFLAGS"
+LIBS="$LIBS $SD_LIBS"
+
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([
+ Makefile
+ src/Makefile
+])
+
+AC_OUTPUT
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