When the .so module is loaded, it gets a separate copy of stuff in src/basic, including the log level variables. So any logging settings are unaffected by the loading program calling log_parse_environment() or such. Let's also parse the environment here so that we can have nice logging. Initialization is done from each exported function, and pthread_once_t is used to avoid duplicate initialization. I didn't merge PROTECT_ERRNO into NSS_ENTRYPOINT_BEGIN because UNPROTECT_ERRNO is called in a bunch of places and it would feel strange to have PROTECT_ERRNO hidden, but not UNPROTECT_ERRNO. The most interesting stuff in this module is the varlink messages, and any potential errors in json. So let's enable json logging when debug messages are enabled. With those changes, figuring out the issue in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/17823 is trivial: $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=build/ SYSTEMD_LOG_COLOR=1 SYSTEMD_LOG_LOCATION=1 SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug getent hosts mirrors.fedoraproject.org src/shared/varlink.c:237: n/a: varlink: setting state idle-client src/shared/varlink.c:1240: n/a: Sending message: {"method":"io.systemd.Resolve.ResolveHostname","parameters":{"name":"mirrors.fedoraproject.org","family":10}} src/shared/varlink.c:240: n/a: varlink: changing state idle-client → calling src/shared/varlink.c:588: n/a: New incoming message: {"parameters":{"addresses":[{"ifindex":0,"family":10,"address":[42,5,208,20,0,16,120,3,247,116,77,124,226,119,164,87]},{"ifindex":0,"family":10,"address":[42,5,208,28,12,106,204,3,38,58,132,9,185,97,126,2]},{"ifindex":0,"family":10,"address":[38,32,0,82,0,3,0,1,222,173,190,239,202,254,254,215]},{"ifindex":0,"family":10,"address":[38,5,188,128,48,16,6,0,222,173,190,239,202,254,254,217]},{"ifindex":0,"family":10,"address":[38,4,21,128,254,0,0,0,222,173,190,239,202,254,254,209]},{"ifindex":0,"family":10,"address":[38,32,0,82,0,3,0,1,222,173,190,239,202,254,254,214]},{"ifindex":0,"family":10,"address":[38,16,0,40,48,144,48,1,222,173,190,239,202,254,254,211]},{"ifindex":0,"family":10,"address":[32,1,65,120,0,2,18,105,0,0,0,0,0,0,254,210]}],"name":"wildcard.fedoraproject.org","flags":1}} src/shared/varlink.c:240: n/a: varlink: changing state calling → called src/shared/varlink.c:240: n/a: varlink: changing state called → idle-client src/nss-resolve/nss-resolve.c:84: (string):1:40: JSON field 'ifindex' is out of bounds for an interface index.
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