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doc: Document the signal-safe log behaviour in the tor man page

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@ -663,7 +663,16 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS
debug, info, notice, warn, and err. We advise using "notice" in most cases,
since anything more verbose may provide sensitive information to an
attacker who obtains the logs. If only one severity level is given, all
messages of that level or higher will be sent to the listed destination.
messages of that level or higher will be sent to the listed destination. +
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Some low-level logs may be sent from signal handlers, so their destination
logs must be signal-safe. These low-level logs include backtraces,
logging function errors, and errors in code called by logging functions.
Signal-safe logs are always sent to stderr or stdout. They are also sent to
a limited number of log files that are configured to log messages at error
severity from the bug or general domains. They are never sent as syslogs,
android logs, control port log events, or to any API-based log
destinations.
[[Log2]] **Log** __minSeverity__[-__maxSeverity__] **file** __FILENAME__::
As above, but send log messages to the listed filename. The