[BusyBox] Syslogd

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Tue Mar 6 21:43:46 UTC 2001


On Tue Mar 06, 2001 at 04:27:34PM -0500, Gennady Feldman wrote:
> 
> 	I was reworking my circular buffer code in Syslog (also doing some
> cleanup to follow the new styles guide and a couple of other things) when
> I remembered that there was a lot of discussion regarding rewriting
> syslogd to use select() instead of forking processes. This actually makes
> a big deal for my circular buffer code since if it's only one thread then
> I can deallocate the buffer when syslogd is shutting down.
> 
> P.S. I am actually thnikning of doing the rewrite unless somebody already
> has some code written.

A rewrite to use select would be a very good thing.
By all means, go for it.

 -Erik

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