Added the following write call to the API of the CASTOR logging system, the

idea being you might simply want to log a message with no parameters.

  /**
   * Writes a message into the CASTOR logging system. Note that no exception
   * will ever be thrown in case of failure. Failures will actually be
   * silently ignored in order to not impact the processing.
   *
   * Note that this version of writeMsg() implicitly uses the current time as
   * the time stamp of the message.
   *
   * @param priority the priority of the message as defined by the syslog API.
   * @param msg the message.
   */
  virtual void writeMsg(
    const int priority,
    const std::string &msg) throw() = 0;

castor/log/Log.hpp

@@ -128,6 +128,21 @@ public:
     castor::log::Param(&params)[numParams]) throw() {
     writeMsg(priority, msg, numParams, params);
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Writes a message into the CASTOR logging system. Note that no exception
+   * will ever be thrown in case of failure. Failures will actually be
+   * silently ignored in order to not impact the processing.
+   *
+   * Note that this version of writeMsg() implicitly uses the current time as
+   * the time stamp of the message.
+   *
+   * @param priority the priority of the message as defined by the syslog API.
+   * @param msg the message.
+   */
+  virtual void writeMsg(
+    const int priority,
+    const std::string &msg) throw() = 0;
 }; // class Log
 
 } // namespace log

castor/log/LogImplementation.cpp

@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ void castor::log::LogImplementation::reducedSyslog(const char *const msg,
 // writeMsg
 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 void castor::log::LogImplementation::writeMsg(
-  const int severity,
+  const int priority,
   const std::string &msg,
   const int numParams,
   const castor::log::Param params[]) throw() {
@@ -492,5 +492,15 @@ void castor::log::LogImplementation::writeMsg(
   struct timeval timeStamp;
   gettimeofday(&timeStamp, NULL);
 
-  writeMsg(severity, msg, numParams, params, timeStamp);
+  writeMsg(priority, msg, numParams, params, timeStamp);
+}
+
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// writeMsg
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+void castor::log::LogImplementation::writeMsg(
+  const int priority,
+  const std::string &msg) throw() {
+  Param *emptyParams = NULL;
+  writeMsg(priority, msg, 0, emptyParams);
 }

castor/log/LogImplementation.hpp

@@ -96,6 +96,21 @@ public:
     const int numParams,
     const castor::log::Param params[]) throw();
 
+  /**
+   * Writes a message into the CASTOR logging system. Note that no exception
+   * will ever be thrown in case of failure. Failures will actually be
+   * silently ignored in order to not impact the processing.
+   *
+   * Note that this version of writeMsg() implicitly uses the current time as
+   * the time stamp of the message.
+   *
+   * @param priority the priority of the message as defined by the syslog API.
+   * @param msg the message.
+   */
+  void writeMsg(
+    const int priority,
+    const std::string &msg) throw();
+
 private:
 
   /**