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Re: rolling over high-traffic logfiles?

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bart Schaefer)
Subject: Re: rolling over high-traffic logfiles?
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:36:43 +0100 (BST)
Cc: sweth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <980715220851.ZM13527@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Bart Schaefer" at Jul 15, 98 10:08:51 pm

Bart Schaefer wrote:
>There's still a race condition where some process could attempt to write
>to extlog during the execution of "mv", that is, between unlinking the
>old extlog and renaming extlog.new to extlog.

mv should use rename() to atomically replace the log file, in which case
there is no race condition.

-zefram

References:
- Re: rolling over high-traffic logfiles?
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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