From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:03:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-daemon: fix for rotating logs
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805111901390.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804281523040.5399@eeepc-johanness>

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> 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.

Actually, the culprit were _not_ rotating logs.  At least not really.  
syslog() is not supposed to be called from a signal handler.  In 
git-daemon, it is, from child_handler(), but only when called with 
--verbose (and --syslog, or --detach).  Bummer.

Sorry for my wrong analysis,
Dscho