[syslog-ng] syslog-ng large NVTable patch

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:14 +0100, Peter Eisenlohr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as requested by bazsi in the forums
> 
>   http://www.syslog.org/forum/index.php?topic=1218.0
> 
> here's a patch against syslog-ng enabling it to handle log messages
> larger than the current 256k limit. This is done by extending NVTable's
> data structures from 16 to 32 bit. The patch also contains simple code
> for automatic resizing of the receive buffer. 'log_msg_size' is still
> honoured, though.
> 
> I have been using this to regularly receive multi-MB XML messages and
> process them into log files.
> 
> I developed the patch against 3.3.1, but also tested it with 3.3.3 and
> on x64 as well. 'make check' runs fine, too -- but still, use at your
> own risk.

Thanks for posting this here. I'll have to read this again when I have a
little bit more thinking time and I'll check how the structures have
grown and if there's padding or anything like that.

Otherwise it looks nice.
Thanks again.

-- 
Bazsi