[Nut-upsdev] [nut-commits] svn commit r1837 - trunk/clients

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> Citeren Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> >> I think I would really prefer that upslog didn't keep the log file
> >> open, that way it doesn't matter if the log file is rotated.
> >
> > I'm starting to come around to this idea. For some reason, I
> > thought the upslog program went into the background for a log file
> > other than stdout, which would complicate error reporting, but that
> > isn't the case.
>
> It *should* background if it isn't logging to stdout, so if it isn't,
> we might have a bug here. I'm not to keen on open/close for each line
> we log, for exactly the reason you mention here.

Can you elaborate?
I don't see any disadvantage to doing an open/close for each line. The 
extra syscall load would be trivial.

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