[syslog-ng] syslog-ng deadlock if /dev/console locks?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 17:31 -0600, Paul Krizak wrote:
> FYI, we have found experimentally that syslog-ng 3.1.2 will use poll() 
> on /dev/console without complaining, and that doing this actually seems 
> to solve the problem.  We have not been able to reproduce the console 
> hang after switching the console destination to use poll() instead of 
> file().

I guess you are referring to pipe(), not poll(), as the latter is a
system call.

But yes, in the knowledge of the code, syslog-ng should behave properly
in this case.

But that's what my patch also implements.

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Bazsi