On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:21:35PM -0500, Shafik Yaghmour wrote: > So if you have a high system load it is okay to have some of the > syslog messages lost? Hmm, I dunno, IMHO it is never okay, I mean why > should you open up the opportunity at all. You know, security based on > something being "not so prone to failure" doesn't exactly make me feel > warm and cozy. As long as syslog uses a connected socket (which it does), and doesn't flag MSG_NOWAIT (which it doesn't), there isn't anything in the kernel source that looks like the code will fail under cpu/memory/whatever contention. Just because UDP datagrams are unreliable that doesn't mean that UNIX datagrams are too. Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | --- o --- Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play okirat_private | / | \ sol.dhoop.naytheet.ah kin.ir.samse.qurax okirat_private +-------------------- Why Not?! ----------------------- UNIX, n.: Spanish manufacturer of fire extinguishers.
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