[PATCH v2 10/14] daemon: use full buffered mode for stderr

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>

Date

Jan 15, 2010, 21:30 UTC

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Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
---
 daemon.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
index 2d63cbc..fc2c150 100644
--- a/daemon.c
+++ b/daemon.c
@@ -66,12 +66,14 @@ static void logreport(int priority, const char *err, va_list params)
 		syslog(priority, "%s", buf);
 	} else {
 		/*
-		 * Since stderr is set to linebuffered mode, the
+		 * Since stderr is set to buffered mode, the
 		 * logging of different processes will not overlap
+		 * unless they overflow the (rather big) buffers.
 		 */
 		fprintf(stderr, "[%"PRIuMAX"] ", (uintmax_t)getpid());
 		vfprintf(stderr, err, params);
 		fputc('\n', stderr);
+		fflush(stderr);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -1062,7 +1064,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		set_die_routine(daemon_die);
 	} else
 		/* avoid splitting a message in the middle */
-		setvbuf(stderr, NULL, _IOLBF, 0);
+		setvbuf(stderr, NULL, _IOFBF, 4096);
 
 	if (inetd_mode && (group_name || user_name))
 		die("--user and --group are incompatible with --inetd");

-- 
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