Just did some digging in the android source code. This function maps to
static jint android_util_Log_println_native(JNIEnv* env, jobject clazz,
jint bufID, jint priority, jstring tagObj, jstring msgObj)
{
const char* tag = NULL;
const char* msg = NULL;
if (msgObj == NULL) {
jniThrowNullPointerException(env, "println needs a message");
return -1;
}
if (bufID < 0 || bufID >= LOG_ID_MAX) {
jniThrowNullPointerException(env, "bad bufID");
return -1;
}
if (tagObj != NULL)
tag = env->GetStringUTFChars(tagObj, NULL);
msg = env->GetStringUTFChars(msgObj, NULL);
int res = __android_log_buf_write(bufID, (android_LogPriority)priority, tag, msg);
if (tag != NULL)
env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(tagObj, tag);
env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(msgObj, msg);
return res;
}
Basically this then passes the arguments to the driver in the system which goes and writes to the Log buffer. Log buffer is pointed by /dev/log in the Linux kernel.