[BusyBox] another one on circular buffer syslogd

[Michael Renzmann]

Hi.

> > Erm, is anyone actually reading my mails concerning that circular
> > buffer syslogd? At least Gennady? There was very few response on
> > that by now... :)
> I have been.

Fine :)

> > One process is the father, the rest are childs. So there seems to
> > be a forking problem somewhere. Any ideas where to look at for
> > this?
> It is indeed due to forking, but it is not a problem per se: it is
> by design. syslogd forks a child to handle each connection. I recall
> some discussions about changing it to a non-forking version which
> would use select. Someone expressed the thought that select would
> increase the program size by quite a bit. I have thought about, but
> never had the time, to investigate this empirically.

I think the waste won't be that much...

> In any case, the solution to the 'problem' would require rewriting
> syslogd to use select instead of forking.  A nice project for
> someone with a bit of time.  I am interested, but cannot promise to
> do it soon.

The same problem I have. And there are some other things on my
to-do-list that are related to busybox... we'll see.

Bye, Mike