[syslog-ng]Over zealous syslog-ng problem

[Andreas Schulze]

Borzenkov Andrey wrote:
> 
>>On the other hand, in theory, more than one process can write
>>nonblocking to the same pipe. So its better to use atomic writes with
>>buffers <= PIPE_BUF, to avoid, that the processes interleaves.
> 
> It does not actually help in current implementation because pipe writes in
> syslog-ng do not preserve message boundaries. [...]

Yepp. That's the problem.
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