Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
If httpd writes a complete line, to any kind of a file descriptor,
anything beyond that is out of our control and becomes a question of the
quality of the piped logger, filesystem or whatever else is on the other
side of that file-descriptor.
Maybe I'm just being difficult, but I'm still not sold on it :) While I
understand all that you wrote, the possibilities of getting "partial
line" with normal piped logs irks me. Maybe it's just a personal thing...
I prefer to have something like:
length of message, message, sync bit
(message could be many log lines)
That way it's easy to ensure you get complete log entries and detect
when you don't. I could write a piped logger that did this, but I'd
have to detect when the lines begin and end and mod_log_config already
knows that.
Yes, for 90+% of the time, piped logs are great.
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Brian Akins
Lead Systems Engineer
CNN Internet Technologies
