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I hope you'll agree the process which wrote it successfully knows it is there without needing to read the output file.
Yes, thats right. But in the most of the cases the systems are loosely coupled by design such that each of the unit performs their job so seldom you could control the functionality or add functionality to process that is creating the log messages.
For example:
Its not obvious that I request DW team to WebServer team to redirect all <example_logs> to be suppressed or erase. It is upto the reporting team to filter that out from the apache/website logs to not use them.
That is the reason, I didnt give out that possibility.
In any case, I don't mean to deny what you had said. I just assumed ( over - assumed ) thats not going to be the case.