Re: single instance of multilog for multiple processes

(* Reply to /dev/null'd *)

Daryl Tester wrote:

> Richard Lucassen wrote:

>> Is this the right way to do this or are there some restrictions or
>> disadvantages? Two processes writing simultaneously to the fifo
>> will be processed sequentially AFAIK.

> You could also potentially (depending on access rights etc.) do

D'oh - scratch that, I didn't read the sequentially part clearly
enough (I thought the processes were being executed sequentially
... never mind).  What Paul said with the fifo is correct - I don't
think there are any atomic guarantees with writes to pipes (named
or otherwise), so there is potential for log line mangling (I've
actually struck this with traditional unnamed pipe + multilog).


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