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The C++ library has a helper SetLogSymlink and the Go version automatically creates symlinks for each log file.

So, for example, on my system I see files like this from a Go program using glog:

$ ls -l /tmp/nomadnet.INFO         
lrwxrwxrwx 1 wathiede users 59 Dec 26 21:16 /tmp/nomadnet.INFO -> nomadnet.nixos-07.wathiede.log.INFO.20221226-211600.4192921

That points to the logs of the most recent invocations of my glog enabled programs.

Would you be receptive of a pull request that mimicked the Go behavior? If not, how about a helper to create it manually like the C++ version?

The automatic behavior is really nice because the symlinks don't get created until a program has logged at that level, for example, the .ERROR symlink won't even exist if the program hasn't yet logged at the error level.

Windows uses its own way of exposing its API.
This needs some additional work.