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Date:      Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:59:19 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Cc:        audit@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>, Brian McDonald <brian@lustygrapes.net>
Subject:   Re: Syslog hangong on console. 
Message-ID:   <200202171759.aa61427@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:43:09 MST." <200202171743.g1HHhATG025320@xerxes.courtesan.com> 

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> Below is the diff I committed to OpenBSD some time ago.  It goes a
> bit farther and opens all files with O_NONBLOCK and then changes
> to blocking writes for real files.

Looks potentially useful - I'll see if I can drag it into our
syslogd. I dunno if you want to consider the patch I posted for
OpenBSD, as it could be useful if syslogd becomes unresponsive for
some other reason and the console is blocking.

BTW - some people seemed to be indicating that syslogd was blocking
at some stage other than the open, which is what I wasn't able to
reproduce. FreeBSD's syslogd uses ttymsg() to write to the tty,
which should never block. The only way I could see it happening was
if isatty() lied after the tty was opened.

	David.

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