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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: void <float@firedrake.org>
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Subject: Re: syslogd and kqueue
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:39:57PM +0100, void wrote:
> If syslogd used the kqueue interface, I believe it could open a new log
> file as soon as it was created, rather than waiting to receive a signal.
> Would this be worth doing, or would it be too big a divergence from the
> traditional behavior?

I assume you mean "as soon as the configuration file is modified"?
That would be a big violation of POLA.

Kris

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