Re: mutilog via fifo

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:27:31 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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richard lucassen <[email protected]> wrote:
> BTW, just wondering: does a named pipe (like I use now) create extra
> load or disk access compared to a "normal" pipe?

Just a little disk activity when opening it.  After that it's just
like an anonymous pipe.  But since this pipe isn't kept open by
svscan, if tcpserver and multilog both happen to die at the same time,
any log data waiting in the pipe at that point will be lost.


paul