Re: [PATCH] daemon: send stderr of service programs to the syslog
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- H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
- Date
- Jun 15, 2009, 19:06 UTC
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Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> > They could, if they were broken. :-) > > IIRC only upload-pack produces progress (from pack-objects). > It does so by using a pipe on fd 2, and either copying it down > to the client via side-band, or discarding it. So progress data > shouldn't ever appear on upload-pack's own fd 2, which means you > won't get it in this syslog thing. > > But I have to wonder, why are we doing this? Why can't we teach the > individual server program to record its error to the syslog before > it aborts? Are we looking for SIGSEGV or something? Its only the > daemon program staying around in memory, but that's a lot of little > daemons doing nothing waiting for their children to terminate. > Seems like a waste to me. >
Actually, even logging signals would be useful, so I think this makes sense. The daemon process is pretty trivial compared to the rest of the stuff being spawned.
-hpa