From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:29:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-daemon: fix for rotating logs
Message-ID: <7vtzhmaqpd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804281523040.5399@eeepc-johanness>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> With rotating logs, there is a problem when the syslog is opened only once 
> (in the beginning).  So open the log everytime we write something, and 
> close it directly after writing.

Gaah, this is ugly.

Is this something all the daemons need to deal with?

> diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
> index 2b4a6f1..a887c72 100644
> --- a/daemon.c
> +++ b/daemon.c
> @@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ static void logreport(int priority, const char *err, va_list params)
>  	msglen = vsnprintf(buf + buflen, maxlen, err, params);
>  
>  	if (log_syslog) {
> +		openlog("git-daemon", 0, LOG_DAEMON);
>  		syslog(priority, "%s", buf);
> +		closelog();
>  		return;
>  	}