On Mon, Jun 30, 2003, Thomas Lotterer wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2003, Thomas Lotterer wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > - i had an idea regarding l2 to add a "jitter" option to the l2_ch_file > > > which would open a file before every write and close it immediately > > > after. This could ease epilog issues normally required after rotating > > > the log. Of course, at the price of performance, but it's an option, > > > not a requirement. I think we could finish such a minor change for > > > inclusion into the OpenPKG v1.3 release. > > > > Yes, sounds good. Feel free to implement this in OSSP l2. > > > OK > Done, see http://cvs.ossp.org/filediff?f=ossp-pkg/fsl/ChangeLog&v1=1.18&v2=1.19 http://cvs.ossp.org/chngview?cn=3468 which led to OSSP/OpenPKG - l2-0.9.2-20030630 - fsl-1.2.0-20030630
Please be aware of another change, the introduction of the "trunc" option with support for the now obsolete "append" option. This means that the construct "append=1" that OpenPKG uses heavily still works but it should be replaced by "trunc=0" or, even better, removed entirely because the default operation changed from truncating to appending. In other words, fsl-1.2.0 is compatible to fsl-1.1.0 as long as the choice of truncating or appending is explicit which is true for OpenPKG v1.1 and v1.2, at least regarding the shipping default configuration. However, if neither "append" nor "trunc" (the latter available only in fsl-1.2.0) is used, the compatiblity is broken because the default changed from truncating in fsl-1.1.0 to appending in fsl-1.2.0. This might be an issue for manually modified fsl configurations in OpenPKG. The worst thing that can happen is that someone removed the "append" option to use the truncating default in fsl-1.1.0. Then he upgrades to fsl-1.2.0 and the logs will no longer truncated. No data is lost but the logs might fill up the filesystem unless they are truncated or rotated using external logic. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Development Team, Operations Northern Europe, Cable & Wireless ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
