Re[2]: s6-log: Log rotation during shutdown

>There is no good reason, but from what I understood while reading
>sources, SIGHUP will cause s6-log to read last lines and execute
>log script, so that might be useful.

  It's also the case with SIGTERM. Unless the -p option is given,
which you shouldn't use (it's a special option only used for the
catch-all logger to make sure it doesn't die when the system gets
shut down). SIGTERM is generally the correct signal to use to stop
a long-lived process.


>Also, have you considered combining =3D action and ! processor?
>Not only to store matching log records, but also post-process them?
>For example, if you see some periodic information let's say current
>temperature, this way you can extract log line with that temperature,
>and store just the numeric value in a file.

  There are lots of things that can be considered. I try to add as few
features as possible, because doing otherwise is a surefire way to
explode complexity. Having an idea and a theoretical example isn't
close to compelling enough to clear the bar of "yes let's add this!".
If you can come up with two real-life examples where the feature would
be a significant improvement, where it makes a thing possible when it
previously wasn't (or was significantly harder), then it's worth
revisiting.

--
  Laurent