Re: mutilog via fifo

On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:27:31 -0400
[email protected] (Paul Jarc) wrote:

> 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.

I think I can live with that. The only time I've seen djb's software
crash or die was due to my own stupidities :)

Thnx for your time Paul and Daryl!

R.

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