Hello Jan, ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jan Kaluza <jkal...@redhat.com> > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > > I think difference between systemd and logrotate in this case is that > logrotate is not owner of the logs it rotates. It has no control of writing > to them. I haven't checked that journald code, but journald definitely > controls the log and is (correct me if I'm wrong) the only application > writing to it. > Therefore it's not problem for journald to just write some line to log, > check that the log is too big and rotate it. It doesn't have to do any locking > to stop writing, it just does not write any data there during rotation.
Ah, yep true. In my head I kept thinking application is writing to a file. Right, locking wouldn't be required if journald is the sole writer to a file. Thank you! --- Regards -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
