[BusyBox] -A patch to bb 0.49

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Thu Feb 1 21:44:56 UTC 2001


On Thu Feb 01, 2001 at 02:16:20PM -0700, Mark Whitley wrote:
> WRT the -B problem, I think what we'd need to implement is some sort of cyclic
> buffer that you could push lines onto as it goes through the while (line =
> get_line_from_file(file)) loop and automatically pop lines off the end when
> you hit the limit. I have a pretty good idea of how this could be done. I'll
> take a look at it in just a minute.

This cyclic buffer idea is also applicable in other places.  If the
buffer were a mmap'ed file we could automagically have syslogd place 
limits on the max log file size -- a useful feature indeed if we can
make it actually work.

 -Erik

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