RE: Circular log patches for syslog

2001-10-19 Thread Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse
> -Original Message- > From: Peter Wullinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Re: Circular log patches for syslog > > Just to spoil the thread: > > Shouldn't things like this be available as additional package, > so that the base system supplies only "bas(e)ic functionality > an ever

RE: Circular log patches for syslog

2001-10-18 Thread Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse
> -Original Message- > > how do you decide the size of the circular log ? There's a utility included to unwind the log file into time order. It includes a command line option to create logfiles of user-defined size. http://software.wwwi.com/syslogd/clog.html Jeff To Unsubscribe: se

Circular log patches for syslog

2001-10-18 Thread Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse
Hi, While working on another project, I made some patches to syslogd to support circular logfiles: http://software.wwwi.com/syslogd/ The syslogd patch includes changes to the man page to reflect the new usage. I don't know if this is useful to anyone else, but it came in handy for me on a sma

Re: POSIX mutexes on FreeBSD

2001-02-05 Thread Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse
At 02:36 PM 2/5/2001 +0100, mouss wrote: >do you mean that the >"PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED", pthread_mutexattr_getpshared and the like do >not currently work? dunno if they were there before, but they are in >current. so you might want to check. _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED is still commented ou

POSIX mutexes on FreeBSD

2001-02-02 Thread Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse
Hi, While porting a project from Solaris to FreeBSD 4.2, I found out that the existing FreeBSD implementation of POSIX mutexes doesn't support sharing mutexes between processes. In order to get around this, I eventually did my own implementation of mutexes that works within the uthread frame