[syslog-ng] feature request?: monitor open logs for deletion/rename

[Sandor Geller]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Gergely Nagy <algernon at balabit.hu> wrote:
> Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> no need to use inotify for this. merely stating the file regularly
>> should indicate the new file with a changed inode number.
>
> But inotify has the benefit of not needing regular polls, and immediate
> notification when files change. I wouldn't want it for performance,
> because it wouldn't give a noticable boost in this case. I like inotify
> better in this case because of responsiveness, and effectiveness.

inotify works only on local filesystems - so you'll either end up
adding some complexity (syslog-ng needs to check that a given
destination file is on a local fs or on a remote one) or should use an
existing framework having FAM-like functionality. glib has gio for
such purpose, right?