On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > I forgot to mention: > >> I realize there is still a window for corruption (if two output threads >> running at the same time both decide they need to write at the same >> time), >> but it seems that in practice it's effectively gone. > > The current code writes a single line with a single API call. I guess that > call is rather atomic from an OS point of view, so the window of corruption > probably don't even exists with current rsyslog and linux code.
even when things are batched? with 5.3.5 I was very definantly experianceing problems with lines getting combined in the writes when I had multiple outputs to the same file (using different formats to fix up bad input) David Lang _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
