Re: rotated multilogs are u+x?

[Alex Pennace]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:08:26PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Alex Pennace wrote:
> 
> > > The "current" log does not have this bit set. Why do the old logs need the
> > > executable bit set?
> >
> > http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html
> 
> Yes, Alex, I *know* the documentation says it will do this. I was
> wondering *why* the executable bit is necessary.

The executeable bit serves as a sentinel telling multilog whether or
not the file was safely written to disk.