[syslog-ng] Question about syntax for source

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 20:40 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Robert Fekete <frobert at balabit.com> writes:
> 
> >> The intent has always been to use pipe() for named pipes, and file()
> >> for
> >> everything else.
> >> 
> >> I'm now thinking about introducing a device() destination/source 
> >> which
> >> would be equivalent to file(), but follow_freq() would not be 
> >> allowed.
> >> 
> >> What do you think?
> >> 
> > Sorry if I'm missing something, but do we really need a separate driver 
> > that is almost entirely the same as another one?
> 
> It's not a separate driver, it'd be syntactic sugar only. Meaning, that
> device("/dev/klog") would be exactly the same as file("/dev/klog"
> follow_freq(0)), just easier to write, and device() can have additional
> restrictions like not allowing follow_freq().
> 
> (At least, that's how I understood it - a completely separate thing
> wouldn't make much sense, indeed)
> 

Yes, that's what I've meant.

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Bazsi