From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29118 invoked from network); 17 Jul 1998 08:01:53 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Jul 1998 08:01:53 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id DAA02404; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 03:52:44 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 03:37:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980717093632.A9392@mpn.cp.philips.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:36:32 +0200 From: Jos Backus To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: rolling over high-traffic logfiles? References: <980716082633.ZM15563@candle.brasslantern.com> <199807161614.RAA32121@taos.demon.co.uk> <19980716221117.A22693@cse.iitb.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.10i In-Reply-To: <19980716221117.A22693@cse.iitb.ernet.in>; from Nitin P Garg on Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:11:17PM +0530 Resent-Message-ID: <"t2eKt3.0.eY.gylhr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1682 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:11:17PM +0530, Nitin P Garg wrote: > how about making the file a named pipe ? > then a process could simply read from it and write to a somefile.date and the > reading process could simply keep changing .date part as frequent as one > programs it to. Tbis is what fifo and cyclog (part of Dan Bernstein's daemontools package, see http://www.pobox.com/~djb/daemontools.html) do. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/ _/ _/ Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer;