Re: CRONOLOG: Not cutting in middle of line

[Luciano L.Mannucci <l@xxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 22:01 Europe/Rome, Andrew Ford wrote:

> I wouldn't necessarily switch to buffered IO, but what could be done 
> is to check the end of the buffer if the timer has gone off.  If the 
> last character (or two characters) is not the end of line marker then 
> do a non-blocking read on the input to see if more data is available, 
> and at least copy the remainder of the split line to the old log file 
> before switching to the new one.
This seems to me *much better* than switching to dangerous stdio 
buffered
routines.
A "-L" switch for "line-oriented cron splitting" (or something 
equivalent)
seems a good thing to me.
I'll wait for this new release then.

Thank you for the excellent software so far!

Regards

luciano.
--
 /"\                         /Via A. Salaino, 7 - 20144 Milano (Italy)
 \ /  ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / PHONE : +39 2 485781 FAX: +39 2 48578250
  X   AGAINST HTML MAIL    /  E-MAIL: posthamster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 / \  AND POSTINGS        /   WWW: http://www.mannucci.ORG/