[syslog-ng]source socket keepalive patch suggestion

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:19:47AM +0100, Ted_Rule@flextech.co.uk wrote:
> Ah.. perhaps the light begins to clear.
> 
> I think I must have misinterpreted what the keep-alive option really does.
> 
> I had thought it avoided re-opening a listener on the same socket on SIGHUP.
> 
> >From your reply, I'm now assme that all it does is ensure that 'ephemeral'
> connections
> accept()'ed from a listener are left open across a SIGHUP even if the listener
> is taken away.
> 
> Is this nearer the truth?

yes, absolutely.

> 
> In which case , as you say, my patch is irrelevant to my real desire to avoid a
> re-open of
> any given listener ( of potentially any flavour ) across a SIGHUP, and the
> previous post
> about repairing the 'broken' glibc/syslog() call across a re-opened Unix DGRAM
> socket
> potentially provides an easier fix than a rewrite of syslog-ng.
> 
> And/or avoiding use of Unix DGRAM sockets at all on glibc platforms until such a
> fix is in place.

It's not a complete rewrite, but not a trivial addition. I rather spend time
on my syslog-ng 2 tree.

PS: I might release a snapshot of syslog-ng 2, if you like

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Bazsi
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