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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Cyclic filesystem (WAS: Re: truss, trace ??) 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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> Mikael Karpberg stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > I for one couldn't care less how good the implementation is. I would just
> > like a nice efficient way of making any logfile max out at a certain size,
> 
> 'man newsyslog'

Now all we need is an O_REOPEN !  The problem with newsyslog is that the 
writer has to be willing to access() the file, and close() and open() on 
failure.  Either that or you've got to make it -HUP friendly.  Either way, the 
writer has to co-operate.

With the cyclic filesystem, the writer can write forever and never run it out 
of space.

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....