[syslog-ng] Filtering duplicate messages

[chris packham]

I'll change it back to suppress.
I've also found a potential segfault if the LogWriter is freed while the
timer is running. I'll post the update shortly.

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 07:34 +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:16 +1200, chris packham wrote:
> > Here's the updated patch. I've ditched the "suppress" name in favour
> > of
> > the more appropriate "summary" option and "last_msg" function naming.
> > References are used instead of making a copy of the last message.
> > Timer
> > based flushing is now implemented.
> 
> I actually liked the "suppress" name better, people looking for this
> functionality will most probably look for this word in the documentation
> or via google.
> 
> The patch generally looks nice, there are some minor nitpicks here and
> there, but I'll change those when integrating the patch, it's faster
> that way.
> 
> I'll have to wait till the decision on the CLA question, and then
> integrate it.
> 
> Release wise, I wanted to do a 2.1beta2 release today, but it would be
> nice to add this patch before that, and I'm going for Nordic Nagios Meet
> in Sweden next week. (some nice people organized a conference in Sweden
> and invited me to do a syslog-ng talk)
> 
> I don't want to do another beta release after this one, so I'll hurry
> the legal guys and if I get a green light I'll do a release today or
> during the weekend.
> 
> Thanks again for your contribution, the patch is nicely done.
>